A 



CIVIL CHARACTER 



OF 



JULIUS CAESAR. 



WRITTEN BY HIS LORDSHIP IN LATIN, AND ENGLISHED BY 

 DR. RAWLEY. 



JULIUS CAESAR was partaker at first of an exercised for 

 tune ; which turned to his benefit : for it abated the 

 haughtiness of his spirit, and whetted his industry. 

 He had a mind, turbulent in his desires and affec 

 tions ; but in his judgment and understanding very 

 serene and placid : and this appears by his easy de 

 liverances of himself, both in his transactions and in 

 his speech. For no man ever resolved more swiftly, 

 or spake more perspicuously and plainly. There 

 was nothing forced or difficult in his expressions. 

 But in his will and appetite, he was of that condi 

 tion, that he never rested in those things he had 

 gotten; but still thirsted and pursued after &quot;new; 

 yet so, that he would not rush into new affairs 

 rashly, but settle and make an end of the former, 

 before he attempted fresh actions. So that he would 

 put a seasonable period to all his undertakings. And 

 therefore, though he won many battles in Spain, and 

 weakened their forces by degrees ; yet he would not 

 give over, nor despise the relics of the civil war 

 there, till he had seen all things composed : but then 



