ABSTRACT
Caius Julius ceasar made the acquaintance of the adventurous young Queen of Egypt he was a man of advanced middle age. He was a lightly-built man, of an aristocratic type which is to be found indiscriminately throughout Europe, and which nowadays, by a convention of thought, is usually associated in the mind with the cavalry barracks or the polo-ground. Ceasar's first wife was named Cossutia, and was a wealthy heiress whom he had married for her money's sake. Now Clodius was the paramour of Caesar's wife Pompeia, whom the Dictator had made co-respondent in the action for divorce which he had brought against that lady; yet, since it served his ambitious purpose, he did not now hesitate to obtain the appointment of this amorous rogue and use him for his infamous purposes. Ceasar's marriage to Calpurnia, after the dismissal of Pompeia, again showed his indifference to the moral aspect of political life.
