Seven letters at once, at the same time writing his memoirs.”
“Truly,” continued the Captain, not heeding or hearing the other,
“Truly a wonderful man was this Caius Julius Cæsar!
‘Better be first,’ he said, ‘in a little Iberian village, 100
Than be second in Rome,’ and I think he was right when he said it.
Twice was he married before he was twenty, and many times after;
Battles five hundred he fought, and a thousand cities he conquered;
He, too, fought in Flanders, as he himself has recorded;
Finally he was stabbed by his friend, the orator Brutus!105
Now, do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders,