The name of the month in which he was born was changed to Julius, from his praenomen, and we still retain the name.

He was made, also, commander-in-chief of all the armies of the commonwealth, the title to which vast military power was expressed in the Latin language by the word IMPERATOR.
[Sidenote: Statues of Caesar.] Caesar was highly elated with all these substantial proofs of the greatness and glory to which he had attained, and was also very evidently gratified with smaller, but equally expressive proofs of the general regard.

Statues representing his person were placed in the public edifices, and borne in processions like those of the gods.
Conspicuous and splendidly ornamented seats were constructed for him in all the places of public assembly, and on these he sat to listen to debates or witness spectacles, as if he were upon a throne He had, either by his influence or by his direct power, the control of all the appointments to office, and was, in fact, in every thing but the name, a sovereign and an absolute king.
[Sidenote: His plans of internal improvement.] He began now to form great schemes of internal improvement for the general benefit of the empire.

He wished to increase still more the great obligations which the Roman people were under to him for what he had already done.

They really were under vast obligations to him; for, considering Rome as a community which was to subsist by governing the world, Caesar had immensely enlarged the means of its subsistence by establishing its sway every where, and providing for an incalculable increase of its revenues from the tribute and the taxation of conquered provinces and kingdoms.