le of wood, but came forth
converted into a yellow bird. AEneas found Ceneus in the infernal
regions restored to the feminine sex. The order is inverted by sir
John Davies:

And how was Caeneus made at first a man,
And then a woman, then a man again.
_Orchestra, etc_. (1615).

CAESAR (_Caius Julius_).

Somewhere I've read, but where I forget, he could dictate
Seven letters at once, at the same time writing his memoirs....
Better be first, he said, in a little Iberian village
Than be second in Rome; and I think he was right when he said it.
Twice was he married before he was twenty, and many times after;
Battles five hundred he fought, and a thousand cities he conquered;
But was finally stabbed by his friend the orator Brutus.
Longfellow, _Courtship of Miles Standish_, ii.

Longfellow refers to Pliny, vii. 25, where he says that Caesar "could
employ, at one and the same time, his ears to listen, his eyes to
read, his hand to write, and his tongue to dictate." He is said to
have conquered three hundred nations; to have taken eight hundred
cities, to have slain in battle a million men, and to have defeated
three millions. (See below, CAESAR'S WARS.)

_Caesar and his Fortune_. Plutarch says that Caesar told the captain of
the vessel in which he sailed that no harm could come to his ship, for
that he had "Caesar and his fortune with him."

Now am I like that proud insulting ship,
Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.
Shakespeare, 1 _Henry VI._ act i. sc. 2 (1589).

_Caesar saves his Commentaries_. Once, when Julius Caesar was in danger
of being upset into the sea by the overloading of a boat, he swam
to the nearest ship, with his book of _Commentaries_ in his
hand.--Suetonius.

_Caesar's Death_. Both Chaucer and Shakespeare say that Julius Caesar
was killed in the capitol. Thus Polonius says to Hamlet, "I did enact
Julius Caesar; I was killed i' the capitol" (_Hamlet_, act iii. sc. 2).
And Chaucer says:

This Julius to the capitole wente ...
And in the capitole anon him hente
This false Brutus, and his other soon,
And sticked him with bodekins anon.

_Canterbury Tales_ ("The Monk's Tale," 1388).

Plutarch expressly tells us he was killed in Pompey's Porch or Piazza;
and in _Julius Caesar_ Shakespeare says he fell "e'en at the base of
Pompey's statue" (act iii. sc. 2).

_Caesar's Famous Despatch_, "Veni, vidi, vici," written to the senate
to announce his overthrow o