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What encouragement to virtue, except for the abnormal child, can be offered by the stories of good men coming to grief, such as we find Miltiades, Phocion, Socrates, Severus, Cicero, Cato and Caesar?
Cicero, the most prominent now of his senatorial flatterers, was the sharpest with his satire behind the scenes. "Caesar," he said, "had given so active a consul that there was no sleeping under him." Caesar was more and more weary of it. He knew that the Senate hated him; he knew that they would kill him, if they could.
In 46 Caesar found that no less than 320,000 persons were receiving corn from the State for nothing; by a bill, of which we still possess a part, he reduced the number to 150,000, and by a rigid system of rules, of which we know something, contrived to ensure that it should be kept at that point.
Then they turned and looked back; but there, some distance off, still running with a lightness and a spring which spoke of iron muscles and inexhaustible endurance, came the great Barbarian. The Roman Emperor waited until the athlete had come up to them. "Why do you follow me?" he asked. "It is my hope, Caesar, that I may always follow you."
"Understand, in fine, that Madame de Pompadour has graciously obtained for me the loan of the dragoons of Entrechat for an entire fortnight, so that I return not in submission, but, like Caesar and Coriolanus and other exiled captains of antiquity, at the head of a glorious army.
He perceived that Desmond's loyalty to Scaife made him hesitate and flush. "I understand, Caesar, and if I can't be first, let me be second; only, remember, with me you're first, rain or shine." Desmond looked uneasy. "Isn't that a case of 'heads I win, tails you lose'?" John considered; then he smiled cheerfully, "You know you are a winner, Caesar.
There was a total want of any real defence for the frontiers, and an indispensable preliminary to it was a considerable increase of the army. The doubling of the pay was doubtless employed by Caesar to attach his soldiers firmly to him, but was not introduced as a permanent innovation on that account.
At the beginning of Holy Week Laura returned to the hotel, at lunch-time. "And your husband?" Caesar asked her. "He didn't want to come. Rome bores him. He is giving all his attention to taking care of the heart-disease he says he has." "Is it serious?" "I think not.
Next to Aristotle and Varro, Cicero was the most learned man of antiquity, but performed more varied labors than either, since he was not only great as a writer and speaker, but also as a statesman, being the most conspicuous man in Rome after Pompey and Caesar.
His legions began to waver and soon to retire over the brook into the camp, which was not accomplished without severe loss. Its Issue Flight of Pompeius The day was thus lost and many an able soldier had fallen, but the army was still substantially intact, and the situation of Pompeius was far less perilous than that of Caesar after the defeat of Dyrrhachium.
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