) to the conveyance of about half a ton. The
mere personal baggage which Caesar carried with him, was probably
considerable, for he was a man of the most elegant habits, and in all
parts of his life sedulously attentive to elegance of personal appearance.
The length of journeys which he accomplished within a given time, appears
even to us at this day, and might well therefore appear to his
contemporaries, truly astonishing. A distance of one hundred miles was no
extraordinary day's journey for him in a _rheda_, such as we have
described it. So elegant were his habits, and so constant his demand for
the luxurious accommodations of polished life, as it then existed in Rome,
that he is said to have carried with him, as indispensable parts of his
personal baggage, the little lozenges and squares of ivory, and other
costly materials, which were wanted for the tessellated flooring of his
tent. Habits such as these will easily account for his travelling in a
carriage rather than on horseback.
The courtesy and obliging disposition of Caesar were notorious, and both
were illustrated in some anecdotes which survived for generations in Rome.
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