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himself and lis partisannst There Is Is d re.
markable analogy between the state of
things jim Rome at this time and the con-
EDITION Of France during The great revolu-
lfion. The Bourbons are Represented by
Pompey and the nobles Napoleon by
Cesar and the people sMarat by Catalina
and the mob. Upon the ershrow Of the
conspiracy Of Catalina, Caesar made re-.
markable speech in the senate, urging
that the conspirators should be punished
with banisbment Instead Of death, since
death, being only humiliation, was not
punishment severe enough. Their en-
phatic denial Of the immortality Of the
soul, was received by the senate without
dissent, which seems to prove that the
mass of thinking men, in that day, had
Ito belief in q future state. ''
Caesar soon after married Pompeia. 1t
was custom of the times for the ladies to
observe a religious ceremony, called the.
mysteries of the Good Goddess" The
rites were Of such. nature that the
young male child was not allowed to be
present, and the portrait of man could
not remain upon the walls. A debauched
young noble. who had beardless face, by
bribing the female Slave of Pompeia, ia
the disguise Of a woman, gained admis-
sion. To the utter CONSERVATION of the
ladies, he was discovered in the midst of
their rites, 1t was intimated at the tri-
al Of this young noble, Clodius, that he
had been admitted through the concur
renee Of Pompeid. Caesar, Immediately
repudiated his wife, saying proudly, but
inhumanlys Caesars wife must not be
suspected" ~. .l.,.'.,. r.' 49,. . .'..,'
Caesar was sent to Spain, as second in
command in that province. -. -a' ,. ~ '
At Cadiz he saw statue of Alexander.
Sadly he said alexander, at the age of
thirty, was master of the world. have
lived thirty five years, and yet how little
have I accomplished" AS Caesar was
crossing the Alps on his way to Spain, he
come upo Il miserable little village, bur-
led in rayiue. One of his attendants
said eau there be envy and ambition
here, as -, -ee among the great?' Gaze
sar replied ry earnestly, 81 assure you I
had rathes the first man here than the
second man "a Rome" From Spin he
returned Ill .ensely rich, and formed
coalition Will Pompey and with Crassus,
who was then probably the richest man in
the world, tor .the. division Of the Roman
Empire. Ills powerful triumvirate swept
all opposition before them. To cement
this union Pompey married Julia the
daughter of Caesar. In the division of
the spells OF the empire, Caesar took
Gaul and adjacent provinces; Pompcy took
Aria, and Crassus Rome. Still sll three
of these men were eontendipg, each to
obtain for himselfthe dictatorship. Pom
pey and Crassus united against Caesar
and allied themselves with the mobiles.
At this time Pompey's wife Julia, died,
and was buried with her infant, in the
same grave. This sundered the tie of re-
lationship which had bound Pompey and
Caesar together. !. Pompey managed SO
adroitly that he became, at a bound, mon
arch of the Roman Empire, Crassus being
sent off to Syria, and Caesar placed in the
position of the general Of an army in Gaul.
Caesar was annoyed beyond measure at
this result, and ambition gnawed like a.
vulturc at his heart strings But Caesar
was not man to be- laid upon a. shelf.
With the immense wealth, he extorted
from his province, by military power, The
commenced vast works Of public utility at
Rome, and established magnificent specta-
cles.. 10 acquire more wealth though he
had teen d slave, he became a democratic
slave-trader, burning the cities cyofn the
Gauls and selling their young mene and
/ their beautiful maidens into slavery,
Though Pompeyand Caesar still profess
ed friendship, they were bitterly hostile,
and their partisans were actiye7in, Rome.
It was SO evident that there must be- civil
war. Neither Pompey nor Caesar would
he satisfied with the second place. POM
pey obtained % decree from the sehnte pla-
cling alI the armies oftthe commonwealth
under his command, and callingnuponl
Caesar TO- resignaa9 asi d sgail2p1j4de Cd
Caesar rallied his soldiers around him,
about 8, 900 Roman1vesersns, and crossing
the Rubicon, which was the boundary be-
tween Italy and Ganl, marched ,,precipi-i
lately upon Rome Pompey, unprepared
for such audacity,Aed Thepopulacelete-
ry where rallied beneath the baanersof Cae.E
sar. With small and despairiHgsfnce,l
Pompey retrcatod to Brundusium, at the
extremity of the Italian pensnsula. Gaze
sar lending fourty thomsahd men, pursued
him, ana chased BIN out Of Italy across