ABSTRACT
The people of Rome now began to heap honours upon Ceasar, and the government which he had established did not fail to justify its existence by voting him to a position of irrevocable power. Ceasar's interests were world-wide, and the Government in Rome carried out his wishes in the manner in which an ignorant Board of Directors of a company with foreign interests follows the advice of its travelling manager. His intimacy with Cleopatra, moreover, had widened his outlook, and had very materially assisted him to become an arbiter of universal interests. During the last months of his life-namely, from his return to Rome in the early summer after the Spanish campaign to his assassination in the following March-Ceasar vigorously pressed forward his schemes in regard to the monarchy. For three years and more she had worked with Ceasar at the laying of the foundations of their throne.
