CHAPTER XXI.
SECTION I.
FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FIRST EMPEROR, AUGUSTUS .-- U.C.

706.
When our ear is pierced With the sad notes which mournful beauty yields, Our manhood melts in sympathizing tears .-- _Fenton_.
1.

Caesar has been much celebrated for his good fortune, but his abilities seem equal to the highest success.

He possessed shining qualities, tarnished by ambition only.

His talents were such as would have rendered him victorious at the head of any army; and he would have governed in any republic that had given him birth.2.Having now gained a most complete victory, his success seemed only to increase his activity, and inspire him with fresh resolution to face new dangers.