Monarchs

How fortunate each of these men was in their natural talent, and how industrious and diligent they were in the cultivation of their minds, is more than sufficiently indicated by the titles of the books they authored. Thus, Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator wrote—besides excellent tragedies and the most extensive praises of Hercules—a Commentary of his own deeds. He attained the highest praise on two counts: he was no less a herald of his own achievements than he was the performer of them. In this, he fulfilled the roles of both the great-souled son of Peleus Achilles, the hero of the Iliad and the sweet-talking Maeonian Homer, the legendary Greek poet. I remain silent regarding the most elegant works he wrote on Grammar, on augury, and on his travels; his Anticatones Caesar's polemic works written against Cato the Younger alone are said to have been so grand and so polished that it seems one might deservedly ask how a man—especially one so hindered by such great affairs of both public and private business—found the leisure