For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

As a personal challenge to Octavian's prestige, Antony tried to get Caesarion accepted as a true heir of Julius Caesar, even though the legacy did not mention him at all.

Julius Caesar may have been the first Roman to reduce scrolls to bound pages in the form of a note-book, possibly even as a papyrus codex.

The southern Britons met Julius Caesar with chariots in 55 and 54 BC, but by the time of the Roman conquest of Britain a century later chariots were obsolete even in Britannia.

For example: if five ancient historians, none of whom knew each other, all claim that Julius Caesar seized power in Rome in 49 BCE, this is strong evidence in favor of that event occurring even if each individual historian is only partially reliable.

At one point Macbeth even compares himself to Antony, saying " under Banquo / My Genius is rebuk'd, as it is said / Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

As in Julius Caesar, though, perturbations in the political sphere are echoed and even amplified by events in the material world.

The etymology of " Britain " is so convincing that many authors use the P-form, going so far as to quote the Greek or Latin with P -, even though it is predominantly B -; they attribute the B-to replacement by the Romans in the time of Julius Caesar.

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.

While many other pieces representing both sides of the constitutional debate were written under Roman names, Albert Furtwangler contends that "' Publius ' was a cut above ' Caesar ' or ' Brutus ' or even ' Cato.

Cassius like a modern psychoanalyst perceives in Brutus, his sub-conscious, inchoate fear, hostility, even loathing, of a man ( Caesar ) that he outwardly claims he both loves and admires.

But Caesar even erected a golden statue of Cleopatra represented as Isis in the temple of Venus Genetrix ( the mythical ancestress of Caesar's family ), which was situated at the Forum Julium.

Being brilliant to look upon and to listen to, with the power to subjugate everyone, even a love-sated man already past his prime, she thought that it would be in keeping with her role to meet Caesar, and she reposed in her beauty all her claims to the throne.

The whole affair is likely to have been a political move, engineered by Gaius Julius Caesar, his object being to make the popularis leaders the rulers of the state, Marcus Licinius Crassus, in order to embarrass Pompey, or even Pompey himself, to fulfill his obligation to provide land for the veterans of the Mithridatic Wars.

After his restoration, Zeno fulfilled his promises, letting Armatus keep his title of magister militum praesentalis ( possibly even raising him to the rank of patricius ) and appointing his son Basiliscus Caesar in Nicaea.

Romans idealized the woman who was univira, a " one-man " woman, married once, even though by the time of Cicero and Julius Caesar, divorce was common, the subject of gossip rather than social stigma.

Accordingly, by overt implication, Lorenzo becomes the new Alexander the Great with an implied link to both Augustus, the first Roman emperor, and even to Florence's legendary founder, Caesar himself.

As he had been governor of Hispania Ulterior in 61 BC and had campaigned successfully with them against the Lusitanians, Caesar knew personally most ( perhaps even all ) of these legions.

Before the end of the year, he nominated his young son Caesar and heir, his wife, Otacilia Severa, was named Augusta, and he also deified his father Marinus, even though he had never been Emperor.

In the beginning, everything seemed to go well for the new Emperor, who even tried to set up a new dynasty by conferring the title of Augusta upon his wife Aelia Zenonis and creating his son Marcus, Caesar, and later Augustus ; however, due to his mismanagement as emperor, Basiliscus quickly lost most of his supporters.

Because, even after the campaign of Publius Crassus in 57 BC, continued resistance to Roman rule in Armorica was still being supported by Celtic aristocrats in Britain, Julius Caesar led two invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 in response.

Publilius was perhaps even more famous as an improviser, and received from Caesar himself the prize in a contest in which he vanquished all his competitors, including the celebrated Decimus Laberius.

Later, the Campus became Rome ’ s track and field playground, which even Julius Caesar and Augustus were said to have frequented.

The consulship with Caesar, even if seriously planned, would not have altered the balance of power between them.

* Upon his adoption by Caesar, he took Caesar's name and become Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus in accordance with Roman adoption naming standards.

On 1 March 317, Constantine was made Caesar, and at the age of seven in 323, took part in his father's campaign against the Sarmatians.

As judged by the carved titles of Caesar, Augustus and Germanicus, the related march took place between 84 AD and 96 AD.

In his second invasion, Caesar took with him a substantially larger force and proceeded to coerce or invite many of the native Celtic tribes to pay tribute and give hostages in return for peace.

After ravaging the lands of the Aedui tribe, who called upon Caesar to help them, they began the crossing of the Saône, which took them several days.

In view of this, Caesar took the precaution of landing his troops while the enemy was preoccupied with fighting, seized the Pharos and posted a garrison there.

To aid Claudius politically, young Nero was adopted in 50 and took the name Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus ( see adoption in Rome ).

In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine years he spent fighting local armies in Gaul that opposed Roman domination.

So the levy of troops in reality took away two legions from Caesar.

Photios's ecclesiastical career took off spectacularly after Caesar Bardas and his nephew, the youthful Emperor Michael, put an end to the administration of the regent Theodora and the logothete of the drome Theoktistos in 856.

Julius Caesar took possession of it immediately after crossing the Rubicon.

In 48 BC they took the side of Julius Caesar in the civil war against Pompey.

Octavian — who had begun calling himself " Divi filius " (" son of the divinity ") after Caesar's deification as Divus Iulius (" the Divine Julius ") and now styled himself simply " Imperator Caesar " — took control of the West, Antony of the East, and Lepidus of Hispania and Africa.

Eusebius's Life of Constantine claims that Constantius was himself a Christian, although he pretended to be a pagan, and while Caesar under Diocletian, took no part in the Emperor's persecutions.

Juba II was brought to Rome by Julius Caesar and took part in Caesar ’ s triumphal procession.

In the Civil Wars ( 49-45 BC ) Dolabella at first took the side of Pompey, but afterwards went over to Julius Caesar, and was present when Caesar prevailed at the Battle of Pharsalus ( 48 BC ).

Caesar, on his return from Alexandria, seeing the expediency of removing Dolabella from Rome, pardoned him and took him as one of his generals in the expedition to Africa and Spain.

On the fall of Pompey, Pharnaces II, son of Mithridates, took advantage of Julius Caesar being occupied in Egypt, and reduced Colchis, Armenia, and some part of Cappadocia, defeating Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, whom Caesar subsequently sent against him.

The Gospel of Luke records that members of the Sanhedrin then took Jesus before Pilate where they accused him of sedition against Rome by opposing the payment of taxes to Caesar and calling himself a king.

Bestowing the title of Caesar upon his sons Carinus and Numerian, he left Carinus in charge of the western portion of the empire, and took Numerian with him on the expedition against the Persians which had been contemplated by Probus.