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London, England, 1865-03-01 00:00:00

JULIUS C/ESAR.

The following is the brilliantly graphic description
of the personal aspect of Caesar as delineated (liv.
ii. cap. 1) by the Emperor Napoleon 111 :
" To these natural gifts, developed by a brilliant
education, were joined physical advantages. His
lofty stature, and his finely-moulded and well-pro-
portioned limbs, imparted to his person a grace
which distinguished him from all others. His eyes
were dark, his glance penetrating, his complexion
colourless, and his nose straight and somewhat thick.
His mouth was small and regular, and the lips, rather
full, gave to the lower part of his face an expres-
sion of kindliness, while his breadth of forehead
indicated the development of the intellectual facul-
ties. His face was full, at least in his youth ; but
in the busts which were made towards the close
of his life, his features are thinner, and bear the
traces of fatigue. His voice was sonorous and
vibrating ; his gesture noble, and an air of dignity
pervaded his whole person. His constitution, which
at first was delicate, grew robust by sober living,
and by his habit of exposing himself to the inclem-
ency of the seasons. Accustothed from his youth to
manly exercise he was a bold horseman ; and he
supported with ease privations and fatigues. Habi-
tually abstemious, his health was not weakened by
-excess of labour nor by excess of pleasure. Never-
theless, on two occasions, once at Cordova and then
at Thapsus, he had a nervous attack, which was
erroneously thought to be epilepsy. He paid par-
ticular attention to his person, shaved with care,
or had the hairs plucked out ; he brought
forward artistically his hair to the front of his head,
and this in his more advanced age served to con-
ceal his baldness. He was reproached with the
affectation of scratching his head with only one
finger for fear of deranging his hair. His dress
was arranged with exquisite taste. His gown was
generally bordered with the laticlam ornamented
with fringes to his hands, and was bound round
the loins by a sash loosely knotted—a fashion which
distinguished the elegant and effeminate youth of
the period. But Sylla was not deceived by this
show of frivolity, and he was wont to recommend
that people should have an eye on that young man
with the flowing sash. He had a taste for pictures,
statues, and gems ; and he always wore on his
finger, in memory of his origin, a ring on which
was engraved the figure of an armed Venus. To
sum up, there were found in Caesar; physically and
morally, two natures which are rarely combined in
Li._

the same person. Ile joined aristocratic fastidious-
ness of person to the vigorous temperament of the
soldier ; the graces of mind to the profundity of
thought ; the love luxury and of the arts to a passion
for military life in all its simplicity and rudeness. In
a word, he joined the elegance of manner which
seduces to the energy of character which commands.
Such was Csar at the age of 18, when Scylla pos-
sessed himself of the Dictatorship. He had already
attracted the attention of the Romans by his name,
his wit, his engaging manners, which were so plea-
sing to men, and, still more so, perhaps, to women.

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