Plut. Caes. 55.1

Life of Caesar 55.1

Author
Plutarch
Translator
Bernadotte Perrin

Life of Caesar

55.1

Plutarch

translated by Bernadotte Perrin

55But to resume, when Caesar came back to Rome from Africa, to begin with, he made a boastful speech to the people concerning his victory, asserting that he had subdued a country large enough to furnish annually for the public treasury two hundred thousand Attic bushels of grain, and three million pounds of olive oil. Next, he celebrated triumphs, an Egyptian, a Pontic, and an African, the last not for his victory over Scipio, but ostensibly over Juba the king.