Is Caesar a Good Leader?

We're told that when somebody committed a particular offence, he put them to death with fire and all manner of tortures. He sent a man home with his ears cut off or one eye gouged out. I mean, t sounds really brutal to us. It might have sounded barbaric to some romans too. Maybe it's meant to strike a note of this is what somebody has to do to get the gauls to be loyal to one another. This is how kind of extreme it has to be, yes? Because he's doing this to his own people, whereas you just mentioned the cutting off of hands, that's what does to the enemy, not to his own sor o