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The Rise of Gaius Julius Caesar, with an Account of his Early Friends, Enemies, and Rivals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

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It is assuredly a memorable fact that the beginning of our history, which has been in many ways unmatched, should be closely associated with a personage so deservedly famous and so great as Julius Caesar. These islands were known to the geographers of an earlier age, and had been visited by merchants and other adventurous people, but they were rather the homes of wondrous tales and of romantic legends than treated as parts of the world of which the philosopher or the statesman need take account.

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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1907

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