![]() “My wife should be as much free from suspicion of a crime as she is from a crime itself”.source: Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, 59.description: Caesar’s words as he rolled over in front of his soldiers as he stepped off the ship off the coast of Africa.source: Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, VI.23.description: about Germans, emphasizing their bad nature. ![]() “Robberies which are committed beyond the boundaries of each state bear no infamy, and they avow that these are committed for the purpose of disciplining their youth and of preventing sloth”.description: Menander’s poem allegedly repeated by Caesar when crossing the Rubicon.source: William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, III, 1.In fact, he was supposed to say, “You too, child?” description: those words are Shakespeare’s invention.source: Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico.“Gaul is a whole divided into three parts”.“Do you not think it is matter for sorrow that while Alexander, at my age, was already king of so many peoples, I have as yet achieved no brilliant success?”.source: Gaius Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico, VII.84.“As a general rule, it is unseen terrors which have the most powerful effect on men’s minds”.Before his death, he adopted Gaius Octavius, designating him as his heir. Murdered during the Ides of March by senators led by Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius. He gained fame thanks to his exile in Gaul and thanks to the help of his soldiers he managed to overcome the opposition, focused on the Senate and Pompey, and then, after many years of fighting, take over the full power in Rome. After their death, he held successively the offices of quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul and dictator. One of the members of the Populares, related to Cinna and Marius. Gaius Julius Caesar ( 100 – 44 BCE) was a politician, general, dictator and writer. Rome’s contacts with Africa and Far East.
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