[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.