Sed non in Caesare tantum Nomen erat nec fama ducis, sed nescia virtus Stare loco, solusque pudor non vincere bello. Acer et indomitus, quo spes quoque ira vocasset, 145 Ferre manum et numquam temerando parcere ferro. Successus urguere suos, instare favori Numinis, impellens quidquid sibi summa petenti Obstaret, gaudensque viam fecisse ruina. 150 LUCAN, _Pharsalia_, i. 143-150. [Linenotes: 143-144. +tantum nomen+ = _not a mere name alone_, in contrast to Pompeius:--_Stat magni nominis umbra._ -- Haskins. 146. +temerando parcere ferro+ = _shrink from dyeing his sword_ (in blood).--H.] _Apotheosis of Caesar._ C. Periit sexto et quinquagesimo aetatis anno atque in deorum numerum relatus est, non ore modo decernentium sed et persuasione volgi. Si quidem ludis, quos primos consecrato ei heres Augustus edebat, {20} stella crinita per septem continuos dies fulsit, exoriens circa undecimam horam, creditumque est animam esse Caesaris in caelum recepti; et hac de causa simulacro eius in vertice additur stella. SUET. _Div. Iul._ 88. [Linenotes: 21. +stella crinita+ (= κομήτης); cf. Verg. _Georg._ iv. 466-8: _Ille_ (= the sun) _etiam exstincto miseratus Caesare Romam Cum caput obscura nitidum ferrugine_ (= gloom) _texit, Impiaque aeternam timuerunt saecula noctem._] ‘FACTA DUCIS VIVENT, OPEROSAQUE GLORIA RERUM.’ --_OVID._ ‘THE HERO’S DEEDS AND HARD-WON FAME SHALL LIVE.’ Caesar was the sole creative genius produced by Rome, and the last produced by the ancient world, which accordingly moved on in the path that he marked out for it until its sun went down. Whatever he undertook and achieved was pervaded and guided by the cool sobriety which constitutes the most marked peculiarity of his genius. To this he owed the power of living energetically in the present, undisturbed either by recollection or by expectation: to this he owed the capacity of acting at any moment with collected vigour, and of applying his whole genius even to the smallest and most incidental enterprise. Gifts such as these could not fail to produce a statesman. +Caesar as a statesman.+--From early youth Caesar was a statesman in the deepest sense of the term, and his aim was the +political, military, intellectual, and moral regeneration of his own deeply decayed nation, and of the still more deeply decayed Hellenic nation intimately akin to his own+. According to his original plan, he had proposed to reach his object, like Pericles and Gaius Gracchus, without force of arms, until, reluctantly convinced of the necessity for a military support, he, when already forty years of age, put himself at the head of an army.