85. Q. What is the principal literary work of Cæsar that remains to us? A. His “Commentaries,” which is an account he wrote of his campaigns in Gaul.
86. Q. With the exception of a few instances, in what person does Cæsar write? A. In the third person.
87. Q. From whom did the ancient patrician family of Cæsar claim derivation? A. From Iulus, son of Trojan Æneas.
88. Q. The word Cæsar was made by Caius Julius a name so illustrious that it came afterward to be adopted by whom? A. By his successors in power at Rome, and finally thence to be transferred to the emperors of Germany, and to the autocrats of Russia, called respectively Kaiser and Czar.
89. Q. With whom was Cæsar associated in the first triumvirate? A. Pompey and Crassus.
90. Q. Out of the eight books comprised in Cæsar’s “Gallic Commentaries,” how many is the preparatory student usually required to read? A. Only four.
91. Q. With what two series of military operations on Cæsar’s part does the first book principally occupy itself? A. One directed against the Helvetians, and one against a body of Germans who had invaded Gaul.
92. Q. Of what is Cæsar’s tenth legion, that became famous in history, still a proverb? A. For loyalty, valor and effectiveness.
93. Q. In the second book Cæsar gives the history of his campaign against whom? A. The Belgians, made up of different tribes.