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 | | The sites of Caesars colonies were selected for their commercial value, and that the citizens of Rome should cease to be rulers of the Mediterranean basin could never have entered into Caesars mind. |
 | | Above all, he was determined that the empire should be governed in the true sense of the word and no longer exploited by its rulers, and he kept a strict control over the legati, who, under the form of military subordination, were responsible to him for the administration of their provinces. |
 | | These buildingsare a temple, dedicated to Caesar; a theatre; a hippodrome;two aqueducts; a boundary wall; and, chief of all, a giganticmole, 200 ft. wide, built of stones 50 ft. long, in 20 fathoms of water, protecting the harbour on the south and west. |
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