head. To his army, in one _donation_, upon the termination of the civil
war, he gave a sum which allowed about two hundred pounds a man to the
infantry, and four hundred to the cavalry. It is true that the legionary
troops were then much reduced by the sword of the enemy, and by the
tremendous hardships of their last campaigns. In this, however, he did
perhaps no more than repay a debt. For it is an instance of military
attachment, beyond all that Wallenstein or any commander, the most beloved
amongst his troops, has ever experienced, that, on the breaking out of the
civil war, not only did the centurions of every legion severally maintain
a horse soldier, but even the privates volunteered to serve without pay--
and (what might seem impossible) without their daily rations. This was
accomplished by subscriptions amongst themselves, the more opulent
undertaking for the maintenance of the needy. Their disinterested love for
Caesar appeared in another and more difficult illustration: it was a
traditionary anecdote in Rome, that the majority of those amongst Caesar's
troops, who had the misfortune to fall into the enemy's hands, refused to
accept their lives under the condition of serving against _him_.

In connection with this subject of his extraordinary munificence, there is
one aspect of Caesar's life which has suffered much from the
misrepresentations of historians, and that is--the vast pecuniary
embarrassments under which he labored, until the profits of war had turned
the scale even more prodigiously in his favor. At one time of his life,
when appointed to a foreign office, so numerous and so clamorous were his
creditors, that he could not have left Rome on his public duties, had not
Crassus come forward with assistance in money, or by promises, to the
amount of nearly two hundred thousand pounds. And at another, he was
accustomed to amuse himself with computing how much money it would require
to make him worth exactly nothing (_i. e._ simply to clear him of debts);
this, by one account, amounted to upwards of two millions sterling. Now