Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Julius Caesar: Soldier, Statesman, Emperor
With little imagination a student of to-day can see many striking points of likeness between the British Empire and the Rome into which Gaius Julius Caesar was born on the 12th day of Quinctilis (since his death called July) 102 There was the same highly organised but small nucleus stretching out long tentacles into zones of unrest east and west, the same strange anomalies in the central administration - a government nominally by the people, but actually by the aristo cratic body, the same extremes of poverty and riches, and the same menace from younger nations which were beginning to covet spheres of Roman in?uence for the expansion their numbers and importance claimed. Rome was a' city state, a republic with a vast empire embracing Spain and parts of southern France in the West, a considerable portion of Asia Minor in the East, with Macedonia, Greece, and Illyria, and most of known Africa. Yet the ramparts of this huge empire were weak; and in the very year of Caesar's birth, the general, Marius, was called upon to repel an aggressive Germany which had forced its way through France, and, the year after, a horde which had penetrated Italy and was within a few days' march of Rome.
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