He desired to be the Head of the Oligarchs, and, as such, to ingratiate himself with the people.
[234] For the character of Caesar generally I would refer readers to Suetonius, whose life of the great man is, to my thinking, more graphic than any that has been written since.

For his anecdotes there is little or no evidence.

His facts are not all historical.

His knowledge was very much less accurate than that of modern writers who have had the benefit of research and comparison.

But there was enough of history, of biography, and of tradition to enable him to form a true idea of the man.