Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . s capable ofthe most unremitting activity ; his limbs were bigand strongly made. Suetonius tells us that he wasan extremely skilful swordsman and horseman, anda good swimmer. All his contemporaries agreedthat he was very abstemious in regard to wine,though they would not allow him the virtues ofwhich such moderation is usually the accompani-ment. All were also agreed as to the steadinessand coolness of his temper and the courteousness ofhis manner and bearing, indicating the possessionof that high breeding which the Romans aptlyte
Julius Caesar and the foundation of the Roman imperial system . s capable ofthe most unremitting activity ; his limbs were bigand strongly made. Suetonius tells us that he wasan extremely skilful swordsman and horseman, anda good swimmer. All his contemporaries agreedthat he was very abstemious in regard to wine,though they would not allow him the virtues ofwhich such moderation is usually the accompani-ment. All were also agreed as to the steadinessand coolness of his temper and the courteousness ofhis manner and bearing, indicating the possessionof that high breeding which the Romans aptlytermed humanitas. On the whole we may pic-ture him to ourselves as a man the dignity of whosebodily presence was in due proportion to the great-ness of his mental powers; and the words whichPlutarch employed of Gains Gracchus, that healways maintained a certain seriousness of mannerin combination with a good will towards his fellow-men, seem to be in the same degree applicable,among the many prominent figures of the RomanRevolution, to his great successor CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD DURING THE CIVIL WARS—EARLIEST POLITICAL EXPERIENCES. 89-82
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