| GRECIANS AND ROMANS | | |
| | |
| all the wayes he coulde to make everie man contented with | IULIUS |
| his raigne. Insomuch as one of the Consulls called Maximus, | CÆSAR |
| chauncing to dye a day before his Consulshippe ended, he | |
| declared Caninius Rebilius Consull onely for the day that | Caninius |
| remained. So, divers going to his house (as the manner was) | Rebilius |
| to salute him, and to congratulate with him of his calling and | Consull for |
| preferrement, being newly chosen officer: Cicero pleasauntly | one day. |
| sayd, Come, let us make hast, and be gone thither, before | |
| his Consulshippe come out. Furthermore, Caesar being borne | |
| to attempt all great enterprises, and having an ambitious | |
| desire besides to covet great honors: the prosperous | |
| good successe he had of his former conquestes bred no desire in | |
| him quietly to enjoy the frutes of his labours, but rather | |
| gave him hope of thinges to come, still kindling more | |
| and more in him, thoughts of greater enterprises, and desire of | |
| new glory, as if that which he had present, were stale and | |
| nothing worth. This humor of his was no other but an | |
| emulation with him selfe as with an other man, and a | |
| certaine contencion to overcome the thinges he prepared | |
| to attempt. For he was determined, and made preparacion | |
| also, to make warre with the Persians. Then when he had | |
| overcome them, to passe through Hyrcania (compassing in | |
| the sea Caspium, and mount Caucasus) into the realme of | |
| Pontus, and so to invade Scythia: and overrunning all the | |
| contries, and people adjoyning unto high Germany, and | |
| Germany it selfe, at length to returne by Gaule into Italie, | |
| and so to enlarge the Romane Empire round, that it might | |
| be every way compassed in with the great sea Oceanum. | |
| But whilest he was preparing for this voiage, he attempted | |
| to cut the barre of the straight of Peloponnesus, in the | |
| place where the city of Corinthe standeth. Then he was | |
| minded to bring the rivers of Anienes and Tiber, straight | Anienes, |
| from Rome, unto the citie of Circees, with a deepe channell | Tiber flu. |
| and high banckes cast up on either side, and so to fall into | |
| the sea at Terracina, for the better safety and commodity of | |
| the marchants that came to Rome to trafficke there. Further- | |
| more, he determined to draine and seawe all the water of the | |
| marisses betwext the cities of Nomentum and Setium, to make | |
| it firme land, for the benefit of many thowsandes of people: | |
| 59 | |