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Notes Display Latin text | Julius Caesar, Chapter 64: A good swimmer. | Next chapter Return to index Previous chapter |
At Alexandria, while assaulting a bridge, he [Note 1] was forced by a sudden sally of the enemy to take to a small skiff; when many others threw themselves into the same boat, he plunged into the sea, and after swimming for two hundred paces, got away to the nearest ship, holding up his left hand all the way, so as not to wet some papers which he was carrying, and dragging his cloak after him with his teeth, to keep the enemy from getting it as a trophy. Note 1: he = Julius Caesar Event: Julius Caesar in Egypt |