Show THE WORLDS WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE n D. D l US tu by bT Dodd Mead Company Julius Caesar tc yOW NOV that you have me In n your power you would be wiser to kill me than to hold me for ransom Why asked the puzzled pirate captain Because laughed the prisoner when I am free tree I 1 shall shan return and kill you The young man who thus Jested with death was small bald und and of ot harsh aquiline features Tie ne was Gains Cams Julius Caesar a n Roman Homan of ot high rank exiled from his home city He Ho had fallen into the hands of Gill Gill- clan pirates and his attendants had hod gone to seek his ransom When they came back with It he promptly arme armea armed armeda a n fleet returned to the place of or his captivity overcame and the pirates according to his promise Rome being a republic was for centuries swayed by two contending factions the factions the Patricians and the belans In the earl early part of the last century B. B 0 C. the city had passed under the dictation of one Sulla Sullo whose political rival was Marius Caesars Caesar's uncle by marriage Sulla Sulia ulla drove Caesar from Rome and kept him out of the city for years during which period of exile the young oung man proceeded proceeded proceeded pro pro- to perfect himself as a soldier sol- sol dier a writer a statesman and an orator He ne was destined to make marvelous use later of ot all aU these ac ac- On Sullas Sulla's death Caesar returned to toRome toRome toRome Rome receiving hl high h office In the TT L I I out state it He nu LIe spent the me Hie next twelve years in building up the welfare of the plain people whose fortunes were at low ebb and In in trying to heal civil civil disputes disputes dis lils- dis- dis and secure equality p for all Homan Roman noman Ro no- man citizens This course made him tremendously popular with the people people people peo peo- even while his extravagance plunged him deep Into debt At the age of forty he formed a triumvirate triple alliance with two famous I men Pompey and Crassus by which the three were virtually to share 1 among them the sovereign power of ot Rome Caesar In the division of ot offices of ot- flees was made governor of northern Italy Gaul France and Switzerland and the Alps This office was no sinecure for the provinces were swarming with Insurgent Insurgent insurgent gent tribes For the next eight years ears I he was constantly on the battlefield often fighting In the front rank like a common soldier little by little subI subduing subduing sub sub- duing all Romes Rome's Gallic foes He conquered conquered conquered con con- I Gaul hurled the Germans back over o the Rhine and made that river a n Roman boundary crossed into Britain and after one repulse conquered the time country that Is now England then as Gaul again rose In iu iua Ina Ina a mighty confederacy of revolution he crushed the uprising and stemmed the tide of barbarism which would otherwise have swept over oyer the Alps and engulfed Rome He ITe kept a chronicle of ot his Ws carnI camI cam carn- cam cam- I which as Caesars Commentaries Comnien- Comnien Commentaries I has endured for nearl nearly 2000 years ears as the foremost Latin textbook for schools and a model of literary style Crassus died lied and Pompey and Caesar Caesar Caesar Cae Cae- sar quarreled thus breaking up the triumvirate Pompeys Pompey's s party part was In III power in Rome To weaken the great grent general who was becoming the peoples people's peo pee pIes pIe's Idol the senate at orI order order or or- I der deprived Caesar of ot office ordering him to give glove up his comman command at once I and to return home under penalty of ot ofa a treason charge Caesar had Imd two courses open to him either hIm either to obe obey meekly and to lose all he had hatt gained or to defy the order and thus render himself liable to death as an aft enemy to Rome nome The river Rubicon divided his Gallic province from Italy Should hould I he cross that river under arms It ItI I would be an act of- of open war against Pompey Pompe I Caesar did not h hesitate With his legion of ot veterans he cross crossed d the Rubicon thus Irrevocably committing himself as Pompeys Pompey's foe Pompey having no army sufficient to cope with him fled tIed leaving the field clear to his victorious rival Caesar after atter making himself master of the Italian peninsula returned In triumph to toRome toRome Rome nome where he was hailed as dicta dicta- tor Pompey raised an army armp In the East but was beaten by Caesar who met him with a n far tar smaller force torce and soon afterwards was murdered Asian Aslon king of ot Pontus next defied Rome and Caesar subdued him in one brief briet campaign sending home homp this stilt still briefer report of nf the tho n n victory I came I saw I conquered conquered conquered con con- A later Inter conquest of ot Spain made Caesar master muster of nearly all nU the world He ruled Rome Home Justly But nut ambition wrecked him as ns It had hadman man many another great man Having conquered the time world he longed to be king Rome hated the idea of a king Mark Antony Caesars Caesar's friend publicly publicly publicly pub pub- pressed royal honors on him The people stood mute Caesar quick to feel the public pulse refused the crown A faction r rose se against film Mm working workIng work work- Ing secretly for fear of ot the populace Its ringleaders Cassius Casca Cimber Cimber Clra- Clra ber and other demagogues and null political politIcal political ical schemers lured Marcus larcus Brutus C Caesars Caesar's be best t friend Into the conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy con con- under pretext that national welfare demanded Caesars Caesar's death In Inthe he the senate March 15 41 1 B B. B C. C the conspirators fell upon Caesar and assassinated ast as as- t him Routes Rome's world old greatness was duo due io o Caesar iu more titan thun to Un any t |