It was indeed an old world; and even the richly-gifted patriotism of Caesar could not make it young again.
The dawn does not return till after the night has fully set in and run its course.

But yet with him there came to the sorely harassed peoples on the Mediterranean a tolerable evening after the sultry noon; and when at length after a long historical night the new day dawned once more for the peoples, and fresh nations in free self-movement commenced their race towards new and higher goals, there were found among them not a few, in which the seed sown by Caesar had sprung up, and which owed, as they still owe, to him their national individuality.
Notes for Chapter I 1.

IV.VII.Bestowal of Latin Rights on the Italian Celts, 527 2.

It is a significant trait, that a distinguished teacher of literature, the freedman Staberius Eros, allowed the children of the proscribed to attend his course gratuitously.
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IV.