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Caesar and defying
On the outbreak of the civil war from 49 BC to 45 BC, Deiotarus naturally sided with his old patron and ally Pompey and the Optimates in their stand against Julius Caesar, who was defying the Senate, and after being defeated at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC escaped with him to Asia.
After defying Caesar they are condemned as the grand finale of the Circus Maximus at the Colosseum where they will be thrown to the lions.

Caesar and convention
A noun signifies the subject by convention, but without reference to time ( i. e. ' Caesar ' signifies the same now, two thousand years after his death, as it did in Roman times ).
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Julius Caesar.
In 1774 Thomas was a delegate to the state convention that elected his brother Caesar to be their delegate to the Continental Congress.

Caesar and chose
Faced with the choice between a triumph and the consulship, Caesar chose the consulship.
Brutus persisted, however, waiting for Caesar at the Senate, and allegedly still chose to remain even when a messenger brought him news that would otherwise have caused him to leave.
It was by this road that the Emperor Augustus chose to enter Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC.
Caesar chose a nearby hill to offer battle and the Roman legions stood to face their enemies.
Faced with a choice between a triumph and the consulship, Caesar chose the consulship and entered the city.
Caesar chose to forgo the Triumph and entered Rome in time to register as a candidate in the 59 BC election ( which he won ).
For political and personal reasons Octavian chose to emphasise his relationship with Caesar by styling himself simply " Imperator Caesar " ( whereto the Roman Senate added the honorific Augustus, " Majestic " or " Venerable ", in 27 BC ), without any of the other elements of his full name.
In the Eastern Roman Empire ( called " Byzantine Empire " by later historians ), Caesar () continued in existence as a title marking out the heir-apparent, although since the time of Theodosius I, most emperors chose to solidify the succession of their intended heirs by raising them to co-emperors.
Caesar ordered troops into the territory of the Suessiones but chose to confront the Bellovaci himself.
This political valence is illustrated by the episode of Julius Caesar who chose this occasion to enact the scene of his crowning by Mark Antony and by the fact that he created a third group, the Luperci Iulii.
Dehn chose to go with a close up of a statue of Caesar with a tear falling from its eye which Joyce Corrington characterized as "... stupid.
Caesar states that this left him with a difficult decision, between keeping his forces safe over the winter but showing Roman weakness in defending her allies the Aedui and thus losing their support, or bringing Vercingetorix to open battle but risking running out of supplies-he chose the latter.
Unlike his father on the outbreak of the civil war he chose to ally himself with the Pompeians against Caesar.
The album material included collaborations with singers Carl Thomas, Shirley Caesar and the Mary Mary duo, taking the singer's work further into urban contemporary gospel and Christian music .< ref > Music World Entertainment ( 2002 ) < u > Michelle Williams-Heart to Yours ( Linear Notes )</ u > Columbia Records .</ ref > " Some people will do gospel when their career fails, but I chose to do it at the height of the popularity of Destiny's Child ," Williams explained during the album's release.
The title, in full, princeps senatus / princeps civitatis ( first amongst the senators, viz., amongst the citizens ), was first adopted by Octavian Caesar Augustus ( 27 BC-AD 14 ), the first Roman ' Emperor ', who chose – like the assassinated dictator Julius Caesar – not to reintroduce a legal monarchy.
Yet Tacitus chose not to start then, but with the death of Augustus Caesar in AD 14, and his succession by Tiberius.
They chose between Helen of Troy, Robin Hood, Christopher Columbus, Julius Caesar and Fionn Mac Cumhail.
Addams chose the name " Calpernia " from the William Shakespeare play Julius Caesar ( a variant spelling of Caesar's wife Calpurnia ) and its appearance on a tombstone in the film The Addams Family.
In the Spring of that year, the Directory appointed him supreme generalissimo of the army of Helvetii, as they chose to designate Switzerland, thus reviving the ancient name of the people whom Julius Caesar conquered.

Caesar and cross
Caesar became the first Roman general to cross both when he built a bridge across the Rhine and conducted the first invasion of Britain.
This development ultimately enabled Julius Caesar to cross the Rubicon with an army loyal to him personally and effectively end the Republic.
The following year, Roman emissaries were held hostage by the Redones, which obliged Julius Caesar to intervene in Armorica and suppress the rebels, and the following year to cross the Channel to discourage further support of the Redones by the Britons.
Within four years of Crassus ' death, Caesar would cross the Rubicon and begin a civil war against Pompey and the legitimate government of the Republic.
When Caesar learns of their plan to cross over a Roman province, a great conflict arises pitting the Romans against the Helvetii.
Caesar decides to cross the Rhine again so that Ambiorix might not be able to receive help or quarter there.
He also fought successfully against the Germanic tribes, and becoming the next Roman general to cross the Rhine after Julius Caesar.
He was present while Caesar deliberated whether to cross the Rubicon and start the war.
As the embassy returned, Caesar officially refused their request and warned them that any forceful attempt to cross the river would be opposed.
One of Dübner's most important works was an edition of Julius Caesar undertaken by command of Napoleon III, which obtained him the cross of the Legion of Honour.
He had other problems as well, Pompey had left him with no ships to cross the Adriatic and Spain had begun to mobilize against Caesar.
This Silvius may have been that same Servius Galba whom Caesar charged with the opening up of the Alpine passes, which from that time onward traders have been wont to cross with great danger and grave difficulty.
Pompey's Theatre, where Julius Caesar was murdered, was also outside the pomerium and included a chamber where the Senate could meet allowing the attendance of any senators who were forbidden to cross the pomerium and thus would not have been able to meet in the Curia Hostilia.
The Fortifications built by Caesar in Alesia according to the hypothesis of the location in Alise-sainte-Reine Inset: cross shows location of Alesia in Gaul ( modern France ).
According to the Klētorologion of 899, the Byzantine Caesar < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s insignia were a crown without a cross, and the ceremony of a Caesar < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s creation ( in this case dating to Constantine V ), is included in De Ceremoniis I. 43.
Joining up with Pompey, he was placed in charge of Pompey ’ s fleet in the Adriatic, to ensure that Caesar and his troops could not cross from Brundisium in Italy to Epirus.
Letting his guard down because winter was approaching and assuming that Caesar would not cross any time soon, Bibulus was caught by surprise when on the evening of November 6, 49 BC, Caesar and his fleet successfully crossed the Adriatic, landing at Palaeste.
At the same time that Caesar received Ariovistus's message, he heard from his Celtic allies that the Harudes were devastating the country of the Aedui and that 100 units of Suebi under the brothers Nasua and Cimberius were about to cross the Rhine.
Later, Caesar himself encouraged the Sicambri to cross the Rhine into the territory of the Eburones, seeking to plunder the lands of the people whose fortress he had just taken.
Realizing Vercingetorix's plan, Caesar resolved to trick him and cross under his very nose.
In Christ and Caesar, The Story of Civilization, he argued: " Despite the prejudices and theological preconceptions of the evangelists, they record many incidents that mere inventors would have concealed — the competition of the apostles for high places in the Kingdom, their flight after Jesus ' arrest, Peter's denial, the failure of Christ to work miracles in Galilee, the references of some auditors to his possible insanity, his early uncertainty as to his mission, his confessions of ignorance as to the future, his moments of bitterness, his despairing cry on the cross ; no one reading these scenes can doubt the reality of the figure behind them.

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