[128] [“Thus,” says Florus,[f] “he who had deluged the world with the blood of his countrymen, deluged the senate house at last with his own.”]
CHAPTER XXVI. THE PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER OF CÆSAR
But yesterday the word of Cæsar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.
—Shakespeare.