Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-30
WHO onIy iollowed Ind as yoIaI1eers :

Upon the banks of Rhine, is my fellow here
For wickedness where it once hold does take
All men WI HON it defles does equal make"
but that this fashion was too mean and low
for the dignity OF an emperor Or general of an
army and therefore brought up the custom
of calling them soldiers only.
With this courtesy Caesar mixed great sever
ity to keep them in awe; the 9th legion hav-
ing mustered near Placentia, he ANONYMOUSLY
cashiered them,-though Pompey was then
yet on foot, and received them not again to
grace till after many supplications. He qui.
eted them more by authority and boldness
than by gentle ways.
In that place where he speaks of his pas
sage over the Rhine toward Germany, he says
that thinking it unworthy OF the honor of the
Roman people to watt over his army in yes.
sells, he built bridge, that they might pass
over dry-foot. There it was that he built
that wonderful bridge, of which he gives a
particular description for he nowhere so
willingly insists upon his own actions as in
representing to us the subtlety of his inven-
tions in such kind of things.
HIS ELoQUENcE ON THE BATTLE FIELD.
have also observed this, that he set great
value upon his exortations to the soldiers be-
fore the fight; for where he would show
that he was either surprised or hurried, he
always brings in this that he had not SO much
great battle with those of Tourney, Caesar"
he says, Having given orders for everything
else, presently ran where fortune carried him
to encourage his people, and meeting with the
tenth legion, had no time to say anything to
them but this, that they should remember
their wonted valor; not be astonished, but
bravely sustain the enemy's encounter; and
the enemy being already approached within
darts cast, he gave the signal OF battle and
going suddenly thence elsewhere to encourage
others, he found that they were already en-.
gagged" His tongue has indeed done him
notable service on many occasions; and his
military excellence was in his own time so
highly reputed, that many of his army wrote
down his harangues as he spoke Them by
which means there were volumes of them
collected, that continued long time after
him. lie had SO particular grace in speak
ing that they who were Familiarity acquainted
with him, and Augustus among others, hear
ing those orations read, could distinguish even
to the phrases and words that were not his.
HIS ENERGY IN HIS EXPEDITIONS.
Ihe hrst time that he went out of Rome
with any public command, he arrived in eight
days at the river Rhone, having with him in
his coach secretary or two before him, who
were continually writing, and he that carried
his sword behind him. And, certainly though
man did nothing but travel on, he could
hardly have arrived at that promptitUde with
which, having been every where victorious
he left Gaul, and following Pompey to Brun.
dusium, in eighteen days time he subdued all
Italy, returned from Brundusium to Rome, and
from Rome went through the very worst of
Spain, undergoing extreme difficulties in the
war against Atranius and Petreius, and in the
long seige of Marseilles thence he returned
into Macedonia, beat the Roman army at
Pharsalia passed thence in pursuit of Pom.
pey into Egypt, which he also subdued from
Egypt he went into Syria and Pontus, where
he fought PHARMACIES thence into Africa,
where he defeated Scipio and Juba, again re
turned through Italy and Spain, where he de-
feated Pompey's sons =
Swifter than lightning, or the furious course
OF the fell tigress when she is u nurse.
As when fragment from mountain torn
By raging tempest torrent borne;
Or Slapped by time, or loosened from the roots
Prone through the void the rocky ruin shoots;
Rolling from crag to crag, from steep to steep,
Down sink at once the sheperd and the sheep;
Involved alike, they rush to neither ground,
Stunn'd with the shock they fall and stunned from
earth rebound.
CONDUCTING HIS OWN REcoNNoIsANCEs
Speaking of the seige of Avaricum, he SAYS
it was his custom TO be night and day with
the pioneers. In all enterprises of conse.
quence he always reconnoitred in person, and
never brought his army into quarters till he
had first viewed the place; and, if we may be.
lieve Suetonus, when he passed over into
England, he was the first man that sounded
the shore where they landed.
HIS PRUDENCE.
lie used to say that he more valued vic