He died in the fifty-sixth year of his age, and was ranked amongst the gods, not only by a formal decree, but in the belief of the vulgar. For during the first games which Augustus, his heir, consecrated to his memory, a comet blazed for seven days together, rising always about eleven o'clock; and it was supposed to be the soul of Cæsar, now received into heaven; for which reason, likewise, he is represented in his statue with a star on his brow. The senate-house in which he was slain was ordered to be shut up, and a decree was made that the ides of March should be called parricidal, and that the senate should never more assemble on that day. _J. Eugene Reed: "The Twelve Cæsars."_
CALDERON (Don Rodrigo, adventurer, who under the title of Marques de Siete Iglesias, rose to the first place in Spanish influence and power, in the time of Philip III.),--1621. "_All my life I have carried myself gracefully_," to his confessor who reproved him for his ill-timed regard for appearances when about to die upon the scaffold.
CADOGAN (William Bromley, English clergyman), 1751-1797. "_I thank you for all your faithful services; God bless you_," to a servant who had been with him many years.
CALHOUN (John Caldwell, Vice-President of the United States, called the "Father of State-rights"), 1782-1850. "_The South! The South! God knows what will become of her!_"
"He died under the firm impression that the South was betrayed and gone." _An unpublished letter from Senator Hunter of Virginia._
CALHOUN (Simeon Howard, missionary in the Holy Land for nearly forty years. He was a thorough scholar in Arabic and Turkish languages, and assisted Dr. Goodell in making the first translation of the Bible into Turkish), 1804-1876. "_Were the church of Christ what she should be, twenty years would not pass away without the story of the cross being uttered in the ear of every living person._"
CALVIN (John, one of the greatest of the Protestant Reformers, and "The Father of Presbyterianism"), 1509-1564. "_Thou, Lord, bruisest me; but I am abundantly satisfied, since it is from thy hand._"
On the day of his death, he appeared stronger, and spoke with less difficulty; but this was the last effort of nature, for about eight o'clock in the evening, certain symptoms of dissolution manifested themselves. When one of his domestics brought one of the brethren, and me, who had only just left him, this intelligence, I returned immediately with all speed, and found he had died in so very tranquil a manner, that without his feet and hands being in any respect discomposed, or his breathing increased, his senses, judgment and in some measure his voice, remaining entire to his very last gasp, he appeared more to resemble one in a state of sleep than death.... At two o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, his body was carried to the common burying-place, called Plein Palais, without extraordinary pomp. His funeral, however, was attended by the members of the senate, the pastors, all the professors of the college, and a great portion of the citizens. The abundance of tears shed on this occasion afforded the strongest evidence of the sense which they entertained of their loss. According to his own directions, no hillock, no monument was erected to his memory.--_Theodore Beza: "Life of John Calvin."_