Always reminds me of, Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Spain ... in the spring or early summer of 69 BC . While there, he is said to have encountered a

Always reminds me of, Caesar went to serve his quaestorship in Spain ... in the spring or early summer of 69 BC . While there, he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realised with dissatisfaction that he was now at an age (31) when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.