Excerpts from Anthony Trollope's introduction: It may perhaps be fairly said that the Commentaries of Caesar are the beginning of modern history. He wrote, indeed, nearly two thousand years ago; but he wrote, not of times then long past, but of things which were done under his own eyes, and of his own deeds. ... It is the object of this little volume to describe Caesar's Commentaries for the aid of those who do not read Latin, and not to write Roman history ...