Caesar and his Fortune.  Plutarch says that Caesar told the captain of the vessel in which he sailed that no harm could come to his ship, for that he had “Caesar and his fortune with him.”

  Now am I like that proud insulting ship,
  Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once. 
  Shakespeare, 1 Henry VI. act i. sc. 2 (1589).

Caesar saves his Commentaries.  Once, when Julius Caesar was in danger of being upset into the sea by the overloading of a boat, he swam to the nearest ship, with his book of Commentaries in his hand.—­Suetonius.

Caesar’s Death.  Both Chaucer and Shakespeare say that Julius Caesar was killed in the capitol.  Thus Polonius says to Hamlet, “I did enact Julius Caesar; I was killed i’ the capitol” (Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2).  And Chaucer says: 

  This Julius to the capitole wente ... 
  And in the capitole anon him hente
  This false Brutus, and his other soon,
  And sticked him with bodekins anon.

Canterbury Tales ("The Monk’s Tale,” 1388).

Plutarch expressly tells us he was killed in Pompey’s Porch or Piazza; and in Julius Caesar Shakespeare says he fell “e’en at the base of Pompey’s statue” (act iii. sc. 2).

Caesar’s Famous Despatch, “Veni, vidi, vici,” written to the senate to announce his overthrow of Pharnaces king of Pontus.  This “hop, skip, and a jump” was, however, the work of three days.

Caesar’s Wars.  The carnage occasioned by the wars of Caesar is usually estimated at a million fighting men.  He won 320 triumphs, and fought 500 battles.  See above, CAESAR (Caius Julius).

  What millions died that Caesar might be great!

Campbell. The Pleasures of Hope, ii. (1799).

Caesar, the Mephistoph’eles of Byron’s unfinished drama called The Deformed Transformed.  This Caesar changes Arnold (the hunchback) into the form of Achilles, and assumes himself the deformity and ugliness which Arnold casts off.  The drama being incomplete, all that can be said is that Caesar, in cynicism, effrontery, and snarling bitterness of spirit, is the exact counterpart of his prototype, Mephistopheles (1821).

Caesar (Don), an old man of sixty-three, the father of Olivia.  In order to induce his daughter to marry, he makes love to Marcella, a girl of sixteen.—­Mrs. Cowley, A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1782).

CAEL, a Highlander of the western coast of Scotland.  These Cael had colonized, in very remote times, the northern parts of Ireland, as the Fir-bolg or Belgae of Britain had colonized the southern parts.  The two colonies had each a separate king.  When Crothar was king of the Fir-bolg (or “lord of Atha"), he carried off Conla’ma, daughter of the king of Ulster (i.e. “chief of the Cael"), and a general war ensued between the two races.  The Cael, being reduced to the last extremity, sent to Trathal (Fingal’s grandfather) for help, and Trathal sent over Con’ar, who was chosen “king of the Cael” immediately he landed in Ulster; and having reduced the Fir-bolg to submission, he assumed the title of “king of Ireland.”  The Fir-bolg, though conquered, often rose in rebellion, and made many efforts to expel the race of Conar, but never succeeded in so doing.—­Ossian.