According to Nicolaus of Damascus, Octavius wished to join Caesar's staff for his campaign in Africa but gave way when his mother protested.

According to Plutarch, Vercingetorix surrendered in dramatic fashion, riding his beautifully adorned horse out of Alesia and around Caesar's camp before dismounting in front of Caesar, stripping himself of his armor and sitting down at his opponent's feet, where he remained motionless until he was taken away.

According to Caesar's commentaries, these are his words:

According to Solinus, white stags found 300 years after Caesar's death had their collars inscribed with: " Noli me tangere, Caesaris sum ", meaning " Do not touch me, I am Caesar's ".

According to Cicero's personal correspondence, the motive was adultery ( it is said that she was one of Julius Caesar's many affairs, although Pompey's friendship and alliance with Caesar at the time would tend to suggest that Pompey himself either did not regard this rumour as true or did not consider it important ).

According to Caesar's report, a combination of determined defense, skilled generalship, and the timely arrival of reinforcements allowed the Romans to turn a strategic defeat into a tactical victory.

According to McCullough's portrayal, Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon was his last option, his last roll of the dice, as best illustrated by the timeless quote from Caesar: " The die is cast .".

According to this book, Cato was very honest and decent man, who opposed Caesar's exceses.

According to Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius, at Julius Caesar's funeral in 44 BC, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed because he was mistaken for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.

According to Caesar's Celtic informants, Ariovistus had appeared as a leader of Germani who had settled in the land of the Aedui ( upper Loire ) following the assistance of a vanguard of 15, 000 at the Battle of Admagetobriga in 61 BC.

According to Julius Caesar's own testimony, there were Cantabrians at the battle of Ilerda in 49 BC.

According to legend, prior to one battle a gigantic Gallic warrior challenged any Roman to single combat, and Valerius, who asked for and gained the consul ’ s permission, accepted.

According to legend Marcus Manlius Capitolinus was alerted to the Gallic attack by the sacred geese of Juno.

According to Charles Schwartz, writing in the biography Cole Porter, the musical's book by Herbert Fields " had a lot to do with capturing the frothy Gallic essence implicit in the title ..." and he also noted the " near-perfect cast " and " sure-handed direction " of Monty Wooley.

According to one vineyard that operates a private museum in Le Diois France, the process was found accidentally by a Gallic shepherd.

According to Appian's Roman History, he then ordered his Gallic bodyguard and friend, Bituitus, to kill him by the sword:

" According to the text, the Britons successfully ousted the Saxons at the fourth battle, fought " near the stone on the shore of the Gallic sea ".

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

According to tradition, Brian Boru, ' High King ' of Ireland ( d. at the Battle of Clontarf, 1014 CE ) played the harp, as did many of the gentry in the country during the period of the Gaelic Lordship of Ireland ( ended c. 1607 CE with the " Flight of the Earls " following the Elizabethan Wars ).

According to Dave Filoni, supervising director of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the look of the Police ' droid is based on the appearance of the Keystone Kops.

According to Troy Dunniway, former Westwood developer who has also worked on Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, " A player controls hundreds of units, dozens of buildings and many different events that are all happening simultaneously.

According to the historian Margot Liberty, many Lakota bands allied with the Cheyenne during the Plains Wars because they thought the other nation was under attack by the US.

According to historical sources, including 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees and the first book of The Wars of the Jews by Jewish historian Josephus ( 37 – c.

According to Leland Chee, the keeper of The Holocron, an internal Star Wars continuity database at Lucasfilm ( which contains at least 28 individual entries relating to elements of the holiday special ), most elements from the holiday special are definitely considered canon ; however, there are specific rules as to what is what.

According to an ongoing comic book series from Dark Horse called Star Wars: Legacy, which takes place 125 years after Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Cade Skywalker, son of Kol Skywalker and a direct descendant of Luke Skywalker, is the last surviving Skywalker of his time.

According to Faye Hammill's Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars, the works of Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary Webb are the chief influence.

According to character Obi-Wan Kenobi, these powers increase as the Clone Wars extend into a search for General Grievous, who replaces Count Dooku as Separatist leader.

According to the General Counsel, " The phrase that the Secretary must find the circumstances of captivity to be comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict does not mean that the event must occur during an armed conflict such as World Wars I & II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, etc.

According to Bret Hinsch in the book Passions of the cut sleeve: the male homosexual tradition in China, Zhengde had a homosexual relationship with a Muslim leader from Hami, named Sayyid Husain, who served as the overseer in Hami during the Ming Turpan Border Wars.

According to the Report of the International Commission on the Balkan Wars, Serbia consider annexed territories " as a dependency, a sort of conquered colony, which these conquerors might administer at their good pleasure ".

According to the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Yugoslav Wars resulted in the deaths of 140, 000 people.

According to Herodotus, the tree had been burnt down during the Persian Wars, but a shoot sprung from the stump.

According to Blind Harry, Wallace is also said to have fought a battle at Loudoun Hill, during the Scottish Wars of Independence.

According to Julian Gollop, developer of X-COM and Rebelstar: Tactical Command, Advance Wars, besides being influential, opened up the market for similar games on handheld video game systems.

According to Hugh K. Trevaskis, Sikh support for the British resulted from grievances surrounding Sepoys ' perceived conduct during and after the Anglo-Sikh Wars.

According to Eric Jackson's account of PayPal in his book The PayPal Wars, Thiel viewed PayPal's mission as liberating people throughout the world from the erosion of the value of their currencies due to inflation.

According to the Beast Wars Sourcebook Starscream saved BB from a Maximal reeducation camp, which is why BB is so loyal to him.

According to James Lardner's 1987 book Fast Forward: Hollywood, the Japanese, and the VCR Wars, Sony had met with Matsushita executives sometime in late 1974 / early 1975 to discuss the forthcoming home video market.

According to tradition, Treviso was the birthplace of Totila, the leader of Ostrogoths during the Gothic Wars.

According to a CAIDA-coordinated analysis of the SQL Slammer outbreak, its growth followed an exponential curve with a doubling time of 8. 5 seconds in the early phases of the attack, which was only slowed by the collapse of many networks because of the denial of service caused by SQL Slammer's traffic.

According to this study, there are still about one hundred unknown kinetochore proteins, doubling the known structure during mitosis, which confirms the kinetochore as one of the most complex cellular substructures.

" According to elder brother Steve, the company " grossed just under a million dollars that year ," soon doubling its floorspace.

According to the Armada de Chile naval records he is the only person to have solo paddle / sailed east to west and west to east, doubling Cape Horn.