He rode a very remarkable horse, with feet almost like those of a man, the hoofs
					being divided in such a manner as to have some resemblance to toes. This horse
					he had bred himself, and the soothsayers having interpreted these circumstances
					into an omen that its owner would be master of the world, he brought him up with
					particular care, and broke him in himself, as the horse would suffer no one else
					to mount him. A statue of this horse was afterwards erected by Caesar's order
					before the temple of Venus Genitrix. He often rallied his troops, when they were giving way, by his personal efforts;
					stopping those who fled, keeping others in their ranks, and seizing them by
					their throat turned them towards the enemy; although numbers were so terrified,
					that an eagle-bearer, The standard of the Roman legions was
						an eagle fixed on the head of a spear. It was silver, small in size, with
						expanded wings, and clutching a golden thunderbolt in its claws. 
					thus stopped, made a thrust at him with the spear-head; and another, upon a
					similar occasion, left the standard in his hand. The following instances of his resolution are equally, and even more remarkable.
					After the battle of Pharsalia, having sent his troops before him into Asia , as he was passing the straits of the
						 Hellespont in a ferryboat, he met
					with Lucius Cassius, one of the opposite party, with ten ships of war; and so
					far from endeavouring to escape, he went alongside his ship, and calling upon
					him to surrender, Cassius humbly gave him his submission. At Alexandria , in the attack of a
					bridge, being forced by a sudden sally of the enemy into a boat, and several
					others hurrying in with him, he leaped into the sea, and saved himself by
					swimming to the next ship, which lay at the distance of two hundred paces;
					holding up his left hand out of the water, for fear of wetting some papers which
					he held in it; and pulling his general's cloak after him with his teeth, lest it
					should fall into the hands of the enemy. He never valued a soldier for his moral conduct or his means, but for his courage
					only; and treated his troops with a mixture of severity and indulgence; for he
					did not always keep a strict hand over them, but only when the enemy was near.
					Then indeed he was so strict a disciplinarian, that he would give no notice of a
					march or a battle until the moment of action, in order that the troops might
					hold themselves in readiness for any sudden movement; and he would frequently
					draw them out of the camp without any necessity for it, especially in rainy
					weather, and upon holy-days. Sometimes, giving them orders not to lose sight of
					him, he would suddenly depart by day or by night, and lengthen the marches in
					order to tire them out, as they followed him at a distance.