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He never allowed his weakened health to slow him down, but instead used the life of a soldier as therapy. He marched endlessly, ate simple food, slept outside, and endured every hardship. In this way, he strengthened his body against illness.
Caesar’s rule was that if an enemy opened their gates to him before his siege works touched their walls, they would be allowed to surrender peacefully and maintain their way of life. If, however, they forced him to seize their city by force, they were subject to the cruel laws of war.
Caesar did not show mercy twice.
At this dramatic point in his yearly report to the Senate, later published in his Gallic War, Caesar interrupts his own description of battles and naval disasters to highlight his talents as an ethnographer and scientist.
