A Friend of Caesar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic, 50-47 B.C. (Classic Reprint)

PREFACE
IF this book serves to show that Classical Life presented
many phases akin to our OWD, it will not have been written in
vain.
After the book was planned and in part written, it was
discovered that Archdeacon Farrar had in his story of "Dal'k~
ness and Dawn" a scene, U Onesimus and the Vestal," which
corresponds very closely to the scene, "Agias and the Vestn1,"
in this book; but the latter incident was too characteristically
Roman not to risk repetition. If it is asked why snch a bQok
as this is desirable after those noble fictions, "Darkness and
Dawn" and ,: Quo Vadis," the reply must be that tllese books
necessarily take and interpret the Christian point of view.
And they do well; but the Pagan point of view still needs its
interpretation, at least as a help to an easy apprehension of
the life and literature of the great age of the Fall of the
Roman Republic. This is the aim of." A Friend of Cresal'."
The Age of Cresar prepared the way for the Age

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; I PRlENESTE; II TIlE Ur-PER VALKS 01