Showing posts with label Julius Caesar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julius Caesar. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Favourite footnotes: GUEST ENTRY

In a digressionary footnote, he repeats a story out of Plutarch: did you know that Caesar's assassin Brutus was similarly afflicted with bulimia on his march to the Battle of Philippi?
- Hugh Aldersey-Williams, on Sir Thomas Browne's 'Boulimia Centenaria'