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Excerpt from Julius Caesar: With Forty-Four Illustrations Julius c/esar. - The name sums up all that is most majestic, most imperial, in kingly power; a name that the German Kaiser and the Czar of all the Russias are proud to bear. Yet he whose name has been for centuries a synonym of martial kingship was but a citizen to the last. Only two careers in history can match his - those of Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte, and of the three colossi he ranks first. Versatile to the last degree, he excelled in every thing he essayed. He was at once the greatest gen eral and the greatest statesman of his time, perhaps of all time. The very dispatches he penned on the field of battle have to be classed among the greatest of historical writings. Only one among the orators of his day, and he the greatest, Cicero, excelled him. Men who have done less than he as jurists, as poets, as architects, as astronomers, as mathematicians, as phi lologists, have achieved fame. As a ruler, the world can boast of few who are worthy to place beside him. Bold, yet cautious; incredibly resourceful; mag nanimous, chivalrous, witty; terrible in battle, yet hu mane to the beaten foe, his career is one of the most intense and fascinating interest, from his spendthrift youth to the ill-omened day when the assassins' dag gers took him from the stage where he had played his incomparable part. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionall