Caesar

Cicero has drawn a fine character of Caesar, in which he commends the excellence of his memory that could recollect every thing but injuries.

For as a case in point, he alleges the conduct of the Italian Infantry, who, upon receiving assurances of protection from Caesar, deserted Pompey, even before he was reduced to absolute despair:

Caesar imitated the conduct of Alexander, in forgiving the Dyrrachians a debt, which they owed to some one of the opposite party.

The last epoch—that of imperial unification—may be said to have been ushered in by the accession of Caesar to supreme power in 49 b.

At the end of the Republic the compilation was edited, perhaps to some extent revised, by a scholar named Granius Flaccus, who is believed to have been a contemporary of Caesar;

for we are told that Caesar, amidst his ambitious schemes for the regeneration of the Roman world, conceived the idea of making a digest of the Roman law.

The question is whether Caesar or Pompey is to possess the state;

Who, while some offend Pompey and others Caesar, provokes the two at once?

Those too to whom Fortune first transferred the public wealth of the Roman people — Gaius Marius and Gnaeus Pompeius and Caesar — did indeed build villas in the region of Baiae, but they set them on the highest ridges of the mountains.

or on those who, like Cæsar, asserted in full senate, that the gods do not punish men after death.

let him be set at once against Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus.

though the lands be guarded by his legions and the seas by his fleets, and Caesar's soldiers beset the gates—Cato has a way out:

Recently, when mention happened to be made of Marcus Cato, you grew indignant, as you cannot endure injustice, that Cato's own age had understood him too little, that it had ranked a man who rose above the likes of Pompey and Caesar below the likes of Vatinius;

that we are called irreligious toward the Caesars, neither propitiating their images nor swearing by their genii.

Indeed, by now the danger of swearing by the gods has vanished, the greater religion being held of swearing by Caesar — which itself too belongs to the obscuring of your gods;

Those which are like Caesar's denarius — namely his image and likeness.

It is a curse to call Caesar God before his apotheosis.

We are the same toward emperors as toward our neighbours.

For these works of a good mind are not owed by us to emperors alone.

"Away with this," he says, "with the troublesome enrolments of Caesar, the cramped lodgings, the squalid swaddling-clothes, the hard mangers.

And surely he already reigns — even now owing to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.

and when he had heard that it was Caesar's, "Render," he said, "the things that are Caesar's to Caesar, and the things that are God's to God"—that is, the image of Caesar to Caesar, which is on the coin, and the image of God to God, which is in man;

But to you, after the benefit of an injury — once you were exempted from senility rather than from your eminence — after the obscene omens of Gracchus and the violent mockeries of Lepidus, after the triple altars of Pompey and the long delays of Caesar, when Statilius Taurus set the walls in place and Sentius Saturninus proclaimed the solemnities — when concord brings its pleasure — the toga was offered.