The high and imperial brow, the keen aquiline features, the compressed mouth; the penetrating eye, indicated the highest degree of ability and decision.

He seemed absorbed in intense meditation.

With eyes fixed on the ground, and lips working in thought, he sauntered round the area, apparently unconscious how many of the young gallants of Rome were envying the taste of his dress, and the ease of his fashionable stagger.
"Good Heaven!" said Ligarius, "Caius Caesar is as unlikely to be in a plot as I am." "Not at all." "He does nothing but game; feast, intrigue, read Greek, and write verses." "You know nothing of Caesar.

Though he rarely addresses the Senate, he is considered as the finest speaker there, after the Consul.

His influence with the multitude is immense.