Capitolo 1
HISTORY OF JULIUS CESARE
FROM
JACOB ABBOTT
WITH INCISIONS
1904
[The illustration: The Pirates Anchor of AT.]
[The illustration]
PREFACE
It is the object of this series of histories to introduce a clear,
separate, and connected narrative of the lives of those great characters
who have in the various centuries of the world him famous fact as
leader among humanity, and, from their part you/they have taken in the public
business of great nations, have practiced the widest influence on the
history of the human run. The end that the author has had in sight is
double: before, to communicate such information in in comparison to the
subjects of his/her accounts as it is important for the general reader to
possesses; and, in according to place, to deduce so moral lessons from the events
described and the characters delineated as they can legitimately teach
to the people of the present age. Although written in a forehand and simple
sketches, they is understood for, and it addressed to, chins possessed of some
considerable degree of the maturity, for such chins only fully
you appreciate the character and action that exhibit him, as almost all
that is described ago in these volumes, in near combination with the
behavior and policy of governments and the great events of
international history.
CONTAINED.
Chapter
ME. MARIUS AND SYLLA.
II. THE FIRST ONE OF CAESAR ANNI.
III. ADVANCEMENT TO THE CONSULATE.
IV. THE CONQUEST OF GAUL.
V. POMPEY.
YOU. CROSSING THE RUBICON.
VII. THE BATTLE OF PHARSALIA.
VIII. FLIGHT IS DEAD OF POMPEY.
IX. CAESAR IN EGYPT.
X. CAESAR IMPERATOR.
XI. THE CONSPIRACY.
XII. THE MURDER.
INCISIONS.
THE PIRATES ANCHOR DI AT.
MAP IN ROME.
ROMAN PLEBEIANS.
A ROMAN HOLE.
THE UNLOADING IN ENGLAND.
CROSSING THE RUBICON.
ROMAN STANDARD-CARRIERS.
DEATH OF POMPEY.
THE PILLAR OF POMPEY.
THE BARGE OF CLEOPATRA.
THE ELEPHANTS MADE TORCH-CARRIERS.
THE STATUE OF POMPEY.
BURNING SOME BODY OF CAESAR.
[The illustration: Rome Antica.]
JULIUS CESARE.
CHAPTER ME.
MARIUS AND SYLLA.
[Sidenote: Three great European nations of the antiquity.]