The outlines were laid down and thereby the new state was defined for all coming time; the boundless future alone could complete the structure.

So far Caesar might say, that his aim was attained; and this was probably the meaning of the words which were sometimes heard to fall from him--that he had "lived enough." But precisely because the building was an endless one, the master as long as he lived restlessly added stone to stone, with always the same dexterity and always the same elasticity busy at his work, without ever overturning or postponing, just as if there were for him merely a to-day and no to-morrow.
Thus he worked and created as never did any mortal before or after him; and as a worker and creator he still, after wellnigh two thousand years, lives in the memory of the nations--the first, and withal unique, Imperator Caesar..