55.3
He left several speeches, including some which are attributed to him on insufficient evidence. Augustus had good reason to think that the speech For Quintus Metellus was rather taken down by shorthand writers who could not keep pace with his delivery, than published by Caesar himself; for in some copies I find that even the title is not For Metellus, but, Which he wrote for Metellus although the discourse purports to be from Caesar’s lips, defending Metellus and himself against the charges of their common detractors.
55.4
Augustus also questions the authenticity of the address To his Soldiers in Spain, although there are two versions of it: one purporting to have been spoken at the first battle, the other at the second, when Asinius Pollio writes that because of the sudden onslaught of the enemy he actually did not have time to make an harangue.
56.1
He left memoirs too of his deeds in the Gallic war and in the civil strife with Pompey; for the author of the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars is unknown; some think it was Oppius, others Hirtius, who also supplied the final book of the Gallic War, which Caesar left unwritten. With regard to Caesar’s memoirs Cicero, also in the BrutusCic. Brut. 262 speaks in the following terms: