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  Julius Caesar - Crystalinks
Caesar's gens, the Julii, were patricians; i.e., members of Rome's original aristocracy, which had coalesced in the 4th century BC with a number of leading plebeian (commoner) families to form the nobility that had been the governing class in Rome since then.
It was true that Sextus Caesar, who was perhaps the dictator's uncle, had been one of the consuls for 91; and Lucius Caesar, one of the consuls for 90, was a distant cousin, whose son and namesake was consul for 64.
Caesar's success in building up his political power had made the champions of the old regime so implacably hostile to him that he was now faced with a choice between putting himself at his enemies' mercy or seizing the monopoly of power at which he was accused of aiming.
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 The Internet Classics Archive | The Civil Wars by Julius Caesar
Caesar received Curio with great kindness, as he was a man of the highest rank, and had great claims on himself and the republic, and thanked him warmly for his numerous personal favors.
Caesar, although he was not ignorant of the real state of affairs, was however of opinion that particular regard should be paid to the tranquillity of the republic, lest any one should suppose that he was the originator of the war.
When Caesar's letter was delivered to the consuls, they were with great difficulty, and a hard struggle of the tribunes, prevailed on to suffer it to be read in the senate; but the tribunes could not prevail, that any question should be put to the senate on the subject of the letter.
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 Life of Gaius Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar was born on July 13, 100 BC in Rome to Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia.
Caesar's family was, when he was born, part of this group, since his aunt had married the most powerfull Plebeian of all, and raised the fortunes of her Julli family immesurabley.
Caesar was allowed to return to Rome early, probably due to his emotionally unstable state affecting job performance (his wife who he had loved deeply was dead for a year now).
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 Julius Caesar "Military Commentaries" 2-1 Sun Tzu The Art of War and Strategy Site by Sonshi.com.
Caesar had no resource, but to annoy and cut down their rear; since with his cavalry to go by the bridge, required him to take a long circuit; so that they would arrive at the Ebro by a much shorter route.
Caesar refreshed his army on the plain that he might not expose them to battle while fatigued; and when the enemy attempted to renew their march, he pursued and stopped them.
Caesar calling his legions off from their work, and ordering the horse to hold themselves in readiness, marshaled his army: for to appear to decline an engagement contrary to the opinion of the soldiers and the general voice, would have been attended with great disadvantage.
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 Caesar (Julius) Civil War Summary
Caesar refers to himself as Imperator [a title of honor originally meaning victorious commander but eventually coming to mean general and then emperor].
Caesar attempt to block the eastern port of Brundisium [on the heel of Italy].
Caesar is dictator in Rome, and in the consular election he is elected consul along with Publius Servilius Isauricus.
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 Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.)
Gaius Julius Caesar celebrated Roman general and statesman, the conqueror of Gaul (58-50 BC), victor in the Civil War of 49-45 BC, and dictator (46-44 BC), who was launching a series of political and social reforms when he was assassinated by a group of nobles in the Senate House on the Ides of March.
As a safeguard for Caesar against this, there seems to have been an understanding—possibly a private one at Luca in 56 between him and Pompey—that the question of a successor to Caesar in his commands should not be raised in the Senate before March 1, 50.
Caesar ranked as a masterly public speaker in an age in which he was in competition first with Hortensius and then with Cicero.
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 Lucius Caesar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lucius Julius Caesar (17 BC-2 AD), most commonly known as Lucius Caesar, was the second son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder.
Lucius died in Gaul of an illness in 2 AD, 18 months before the death of his brother Gaius.
Tiberius in turn was adopted as Augustus' son and heir.
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 Lucius Julius Caesar
He was involved in the downfall of the revolutionary tribune Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (in 100) and tried to obtain the quaestorship, but in vain.
Lucius Julius Caesar was now made censor, and responsible for dividing the new citizens in the voting districts.
Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo was an uncle of the Gaius Julius Caesar who was father of the famous Julius Caesar.
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 Caesar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
B.C., was one of Julius Caesar’s legates in Gaul (52
After the assassination of Julius Caesar he was allied with Marc Antony, whose mother, Julia, was his sister.
His successors as emperors took the name Caesar until Hadrian, who kept the title Augustus for the emperor and allowed the heir apparent to be called Caesar.
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 C. Julius Caesar - a biography in twelve parts
When Caesar was still an infant, Marius lost much of his earlier popularity, and eventually left Rome to travel in Greece and Asia Minor, hoping for some new command.
Two uncles of Caesar's father, Lucius Julius Caesar and Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo, were killed.
Since Caesar was only eighteen years old, Sulla decided to show mercy, and ordered Marius' nephew to divorce from his wife Cornelia (a daughter of Marius' friend Cinna), as a symbolic act of his loyalty to the new regime.
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 Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius (The Lives of the ...
Not content with depriving Caesar of his provinces and his privilege, Marcellus also moved that the colonists whom Caesar had settled in Novum Comum by the bill of Vatinius should lose their citizenship, on the ground that it had been given from political motives and was not authorized by the law.
Caesar caught Casca's arm and ran it through with his stylus, but as he tried to leap to his feet, he was stopped by another wound.
Caesar left in the minds of some of his friends the suspicion that he did not wish to live longer and had taken no precautions, because of his failing health; and that therefore he neglected the warnings which came to him from portents and from the reports of his friends.
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 Julius Caesar's War Commentaries
[1.1]When Caesar's letter was delivered to the consuls, they were with great difficulty, and a hard struggle of the tribunes, prevailed on to suffer it to be read in the senate; but the tribunes could not prevail, that any question should be put to the senate on the subject of the letter.
[1.27]When Caesar's works were nearly half finished, and after nine days were spent in them, the ships which had conveyed the first division of the army to Dyrrachium being sent back by the consuls, returned to Brundusium.
[1.54]When Caesar's affairs were in this unfavorable position, and all the passes were guarded by the soldiers and horse of Afranius, and the bridges could not be prepared, Caesar ordered his soldiers to make ships of the kind that his knowledge of Britain a few years before had taught him.
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 Honors for Lucius Caesar
The funeral honors for Lucius and his brother, Gaius (H005), are of great importance because they illustrate the development of the concept of the imperial house defined in terms of relationship to Augustus.
So that each year before that altar, thirteen days before the Calends of September, public sacrifice will be offered to his Manes by the magistrates, and those who are present for holding court, with those for whom it is proper to dress this way on that day, wearing dark togas.
That at the first possible opportunity, ambassadors from our order will approach the imperator Caesar Augustus, father of the country, pontifex maximus, in the twenty-fifth year of his tribunician power and ask him that it be permitted to the Julian colonists of the colonia Obsequens Julia Pisa to do and observe everything in this decree.
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 (69) Augustus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Obverse: Laureate head of Augustus r.; CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F(ILIVS) PATER PATRIAE: Caesar Augustus, son of a god (the Divine Julius Caesar), father of the country.
Since the emperor Augustus had no sons, he adopted his grandsons, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, the sons of his only child Julia and his old friend and close associate Marcus Agrippa.
On the reverse are Gaius and Lucius with the silver shields and spears that accompany the title princeps iuventutis or leader among the youth, an honorary title designating the heir to the throne.
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 Honors for Gaius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Notes: This, the cenotaph of Gaius Caesar, records measures passed by the city council of Pisa in honor of Gaius Caesar, the grandson and adopted son of Augustus.
A similar inscription from Pisa of 2 BC records similar honors for Lucius Caesar.
Their effort to celebrate Gaius was a means of expressing loyalty to Augustus and his Principate.
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 Honors for Gaius Caesar
The vastly more elaborate celebration of Gaius probably reflects the final decree of the senate in Lucius' case, and a number of honors that were only granted at Rome.
Assuming that the senate will suggest similar measures in honor of Gaius, the Pisans are adopting those provisions for their own city, and to do for Gaius at their city what the senate would do at Rome.
That every year public sacrifices will be offered on that day to his Manes by those magistrates who administer justice at Pisa, in the same place and in the same fashion as the sacrifice to the gods of the underworld was instituted to Lucius Caesar.
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 Caius And Lucius, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com
Click here for the Caius And Lucius page with thumbnail images.
CAESAR, young head right within oak wreath / AVG-VST, candelabrum ornamented with rams' heads & surmounted by crescent, within wreath entwined with bucrania & paterae.
Gaius & Lucius Caesars Æ 17mm of Nicaea Cilbianorum, Lydia.
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