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The Gauls were especially obnoxious, and epigrams were circulated to insult them: "Gallos Caesar in triumphum ducit, idem in Curiam. Galli braccas deposuerunt, latum clavum sumpserunt" SUETONIUS, Vita Jullii Caesaris, 80. Suetonius. The fifth, dating the beginning of the year, in the old style, from March. Dion Cassius. The second consul who had been put in held office but for a few hours.

Claudius Drusus invaded Germany four times, 742-3, and finally lost his life by falling from his horse on his return, cf. Dio. Libb. 54. 55. Suet. Tib. 9. seq. Germanicus, son of Drusus, made four campaigns in Germany, A.D. 14-16, cf. Ann. B. 1. and 2. C. Caesaris. Caligula, cf. Suet. Calig.; T. His. 4, 15. Discordiae armorum.

The attentive reader will discover here traces of many subsequent usages of chivalry. Haec toga. This is the badge of manhood among the Germans, as the toga virilis was among the Romans. The Romans assumed the toga at the age of seventeen. Cyr, 1, 2, 8. Caes. Dignationem. Rank, title. It differs from dignitas in being more external. Cf. H. 1, 19: dignatio Caesaris; 8, 80: dignatio viri.

Henceforward also we are to have law based on old customs and theology, not on practical convenience or scientific reasoning. I. Corpus Iuris Germanici Antiqui: edidit Ferd. Walter. Berolini impensis G. Reimeri, 1824. 3 vols. II. C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii de Bello Gallico: recognovit Geo. Long. Novi Eboraci apud Harperos Fratres. 1883

Richard Lee's books were, Wing's Art of Surveying, Scholastical History, Greek Grammar, Caesaris Comentarii, Praxis Medicinae, Hesoid, Tulley's Orations, Virgil, Ovid, Livius, Diogenes, Sallust, History of the World, Warrs of Italy, etc.

She does not seem to have suffered much decay since Honorius retreated upon her. "It is difficult," Sidonius tells us, "to say whether the old city of Ravenna is separated from the new port or joined to it by the Via Caesaris which lies between them. Above the town the Po is divided into two streams, of which one washes its walls and the other passes through its streets.

"Tempore, quo Caesar Româ, dominatus in altâ Aureolo jussit collum signare moniti; Ne depascentem quisquis me gramina laedat, Caesaris heu causâ, periturae parcere vitae." which has been thus literally translated in nearly the same words quoted by Ruris "When Julius Caesar reigned king, About my neck he put this ring, That whosoever did me take, Should spare my life for Caesar's sake."

Amicus Caesaris, "Caesar's friend," was one of the most coveted titles of a man in Pilate's position; and to be accused of acting as no friend of Caesar's could act was the most serious of all dangers.

"Aram Clementiae, aram Amicitiae effigiesquecircum Caesaris ac Sejani censuere; crebrisque precibus efflagitabant, visendi sui copiam facerent.

The correspondence of Pliny the Younger depicts for us the everyday life of a Roman gentleman in the best sense of the term. We see him practising at the Bar; we see him engaged in the civil magistracies at Rome, and in the governorship of the important province of Bithynia; we see him consulted by the Emperor on affairs of state, and occupying a definite place among the "Amici Caesaris."