This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight
of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his
books on the Civil War masterfully translated into English by W. A.
MacDevitt. Caesar's Commentaries are an outstanding account of
extraordinary events by one of the most exceptional men in the
history of the world. Julius Caesar himself was one of the most
eminent writers of the age in which he lived. His commentaries on
the Gallic and Civil Wars are written with a purity, precision, and
perspicuity, which command approbation. They are elegant without
affectation, and beautiful without ornament. Of the two books which
he composed on Analogy, and those under the title of Anti-Cato,
scarcely any fragment is preserved; but we may be assured of the
justness of the observations on language, which were made by an
author so much distinguished by the excellence of his own
compositions. His poem entitled The Journey, which was probably an
entertaining narrative, is likewise totally lost. All of Caesar's
works that remain intact are contained in this edition of his
commentaries.
It is to the honor of Caesar, that when he had obtained the
supreme power, he exercised it with a degree of moderation beyond
what was generally expected by those who had fought on the side of
the Republic. His time was almost entirely occupied with public
affairs, in the management of which, though he employed many
agents, he appears to have had none in the character of actual
minister.
Caesar deprecated a lingering death, and wished that his own
might be sudden and speedy. And the day before he died, the
conversation at supper, in the house of Marcus Lepidus, turning
upon what wasthe most eligible way of dying, he gave his opinion in
favor of a death that is sudden and unexpected. He died in the
fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the Gods.
General
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