of Cæsar, his knowledge, and eloquence, persuaded the king at the first conference, to adopt the Roman Almanac. Cæsar expended very little time in the promulgation and establishment of his new calendar; and it is to this rapidity of his astronomical success that he refers in those well-known, and emphatic words-veni, vidi, vici.

In the same manner I could prove every supposed conquest of this illustrious Astronomer, to refer to the alteration in the mode of calculating time. I shall merely add two additional circumstances, and proceed to the history of his assassination.

Julius Cæsar is reported to have worn a crown of laurel. He was the first of the reputed Emperors upon whom this honor

was said to have been conferred by the senate. An allusion seems here to be made

to the decoration on the head of the Ram, mentioned by Eusebius, and referred to, in page 85 of the Edipus Judaicus.

Cæsar triumphed over five nations. Joshua subdued five kings of the Amorites: Sir William Drummond shews that these kings were five intercalated days;

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and such no doubt, were the five nations conquered by Cæsar. The circumstance alluded to in both histories being evidently the same.

The assassination of Cæsar, is as allegorical as other incidents in his mysterious career. Many writers have asserted that trees are symbols of the starry host: and Sir William Drummond has quoted

many

authorities to confirm this assertion. They have repaid the obligation by enabling him to prove that the Amorites who dwelt in Hazezon Tamar, were not Lambs, or teachers, but upper branches. Brutus and Cassius were said to be the murderers of Cæsar. It is a very remarkable fact, that even now, when we talk of this supposed assassination, we say, Brutus, and Cassius; never Cassius, and Brutus; a custom, not merely arbitrary, but one corrupted from the traditionary words which were originally used to describe this event. Brutus is derived from a cypress tree, whence the Latin word Brutus a cypress; and Cassius from up to collect, or assemble one by one. It seems at first sight a most singular phrase to say, the cypresses assemble one by one; but the real signification is, that the sign of the Ram becomes

invisible only, when the other stars have gradually appeared above the horizon:

they seem to assemble one by one. The

word л, which was corrupted into Brutus,

ברת

was always used as the nominative, and though the form of the expression was retained, its meaning was lost; till it was my good fortune to recover it.

The

Among other phrases which have been adopted by Suetonius to conceal his real meaning, the expression used by Cæsar to Brutus when struck, in the Senate house, is among the most enigmatical. well-known words used at the Eleusinian mysteries, konx, om, panx, were understood by none till Captain Wilford shewed it was pure Sanscrit ; so the expression in question, was handed down by tradition to Suetonius: and has been since

received in an acceptation totally distinct from its original signification: and it is worthy of remark, that Suetonius speaks with more than his usual caution, when he relates the supposed assassination. It is to be found in the 82nd section-quidam tradiderunt, Marco Bruto irruente dixisse, xal σὺ εἰ ἐκείνων, καὶ σὺ τέκνον. From which originated the Apocryphal story of, Et tu Brute. How strangely have the world been deceived! This expression, though so long considered a simple Greek sentence,

is

pure Hebrew, and contains an indirect allusion to the change of the Sun's place from Aries, to Pisces, at the commencement of the year. It may be thus read:

כאה שו הי ביכין אן, כאה שו תכן אן.

This word is here used in kal, which,

though unusual, proves the very great