Caesar could hardly have understood the idea of an indissoluble marriage, of a limited monarchy, of equality before the law.
One strange similitude Froude did, in deference to outraged susceptibilities, omit, and only the first edition contains a formal comparison of Julius Caesar with Jesus Christ.

No irreverence was intended.

It was Froude's enthusiasm for Caesar that carried him away.

Still, the instance is only an extreme form of what comes from pushing parallels below the surface.

It is only a shade less misleading, though many shades less startling, to represent Caesar as a virtuous philanthropist abstemious habits who perished in a magnanimous effort to rescue the people from the tyranny of nobles.
The people in the modern sense were slaves, and the Republic at least ensured that there should be some protection against military despotism, to which in due course its abolition led.