Commentaries

…when Julius Caesar published his Commentarii for propagandistic purposes, his elegant Latin transformed them into a literary form in their own right.

…first great exception is Caesar’s Commentaries, a political apologia in the guise of unvarnished narrative. The style is dignified, terse, clear, and unrhetorical.

…of the continuation of Caesar’s Commentaries, the eighth book of the Gallic War, and probably also of the history of the Alexandrine War. He was a personal friend of Cicero, but his correspondence with the orator, which was published in nine books, has not survived.