Recension of the text of Caesar's Commentaries
He made a recension of the text of Caesar's Commentaries, whence we find subjoined to many
MSS. of Caesar,
Julius Celsus Vir Clarissimus et Comes
recensui, or
Julius Celsus Constantinus V. C. legi.
Many modern writers, indeed, have maintained that Celsus was the author of these
commentaries, and still more have attributed to him the works on the Spanish and African
wars; but the former supposition is ridiculous, and the latter destitute of proof.
Life of Caesar ascribed to Celsus
Julius Celsus has been usually regarded as the author of the life of Caesar, but this work
has been proved by C. E. Ch. Schneider (
Petrarchae, Historia Julii
Caesaris, Lips. 1827) to be a work of Petrarch's.
Editions
This has been frequently printed with the editions of Caesar's Commentaries under
the title of Julii Celsi Commentarii de Vita
Caesaris.