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Carter argues in The Battle of Actium: The Rise and Triumph of Augustus Caesar that Antony knew he was surrounded and had nowhere to run.
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.
Most in the crowd believed they knew what would follow ; Constantine and Maxentius, the only adult sons of a reigning Emperor, men who had long been preparing to succeed their fathers, would be granted the title of Caesar.
The Renaissance scholar Julius Caesar Scaliger ( 1484 – 1558 ), who knew both Latin and Greek, preferred Seneca to Euripides.
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.
Joannes had hoped that he could come to an agreement with the emperor Theodosius, but when Theodosius II elevated the young Valentinian III first to Caesar, then to co-emperor as an Augustus ( undoubtedly influenced by Valentinian's mother Galla Placidia ), he knew he could only expect war.
Caesar did his best to help Clodius by claiming he knew nothing.
When asked in turn why he divorced his wife if he knew nothing, Caesar made the famous response that Caesar's wife had to be beyond suspicion.
Once he became a private citizen Caesar knew he would be vulnerable and instead managed to obtain a proconsul position over the territories of Cisalpine Gaul and Illyricum, with the later addition of Transalpine Gaul.
He states incorrectly what Caesar did on the occasion, and he shows that he neither understood his original nor knew what he was writing about.
The Romans knew something of cryptography ( e. g., the Caesar cipher and its variations ).
Caesar knew that the Germans outnumbered him and that his best and only defense was an attack.
Caesar learned that the Egyptians based their year on the solar year, that is, on the apparent motion of the Sun through all of the zodiacal constellations, and that the Egyptians knew that such a year averaged 365 < sup > 1 </ sup >/< sub > 4 </ sub > days.
The 6s, or 666, ( Lil ' Caesar, Bugsy, Capone, Chico, and Nino Brown ) who claim to know right from wrong and practice it ; the Sixes knew Biggie before he was rapping ( the other members other than Lil ' Kim were added on to the group but still were very close to Biggie ).
The Frankish confederation probably began to coalesce in the 210s, north of the Roman province called Germania Inferior (' Lower Germany '), which had been settled earlier by Celticised Germanic immigrants, that Julius Caesar knew as the Belgae.

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Caesar foresaw that they would now attempt to ally themselves with the Germans.
However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.
Caesar, in his history of the war, would praise his own men's discipline and experience, and questioned Pompey's decision not to charge.
Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.
The rise, and later assassination, of the dictator Julius Caesar marked the beginning of a constitutional crisis that would lead to the reorganization of the Republic into the Roman Empire.
Often regarded as one of the greatest military strategists in European history, Hannibal would later be considered one of the greatest generals of antiquity, together with Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Scipio, and Pyrrhus of Epirus.
', your answer would properly be, ' It is Caesar.
On a mission to Bithynia to secure the assistance of King Nicomedes's fleet, he spent so long at his court that rumors of an affair with the king arose, which Caesar would vehemently deny for the rest of his life.
Caesar thought he would be prosecuted if he entered Rome without the immunity enjoyed by a magistrate.
Caesar also wrote that if Octavian died before Caesar did, Marcus Junius Brutus would be the next heir in succession.
" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.
This Caesar would not do, as such an act would at least temporarily render him a private citizen and thereby leave him open to prosecution for his acts while proconsul.
To prevent this occurrence Caesar bribed the plebeian tribune Curio to use his veto to prevent a senatorial decree which would deprive Caesar of his armies and provincial command, and then made sure Antony was elected tribune for the next term of office.
On March 14, 44 BC, Antony was alarmed when Cicero told him the gods would strike Caesar.
The rise of Caesar and the subsequent civil war between his two most powerful adherents effectively ended the credibility of the Roman oligarchy as a governing power and ensured that all future power struggles would centre upon which of two ( or more ) individuals would achieve supreme control of the government, rather than upon an individual in conflict with the Senate.
This new government would survive for the next 500 years until the rise of Julius Caesar and Caesar Augustus, and would cover a period during which Rome's authority and area of control extended to cover great areas of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

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The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).
He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs.
Caesar ordered a wall to be built around Pompey's position in order to cut off water and pasture land for his horses.
Caesar seems to be one of the first authors to distinguish the two groups, and he has a political motive for doing so ( it is an argument in favour of the Rhine border ).
However, on account of the immediate Sassanid threat, Constantius was unable to directly respond to his cousin ’ s usurpation other than by sending missives by which he tried to convince Julian to resign the title of Augustus and be satisfied with that of Caesar.
With nothing more to be feared from the enemy, Domitian came forward to meet the invading forces ; he was universally saluted by the title of Caesar, and the mass of troops conducted him to his father's house.
It may be associated with deception, stealth, and / or treachery due to the ease of concealment and surprise that someone could inflict with one on an unsuspecting victim, and indeed many assassinations have been carried out with the use of a dagger, including that of Julius Caesar.
Another crucial literary source for film noir was W. R. Burnett, whose first novel to be published was Little Caesar, in 1929.
Caesar, Tacitus and others did note differences of culture which could be found on the east of the Rhine.
The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul ( France ), which he had conquered.
The Helvetii were the first Gallic tribe of the campaign to be confronted by Caesar.
Caesar demanded hostages to be given to him and reparations to the Aedui and Allobroges.
Caesar sent riders after them and ordered those who were brought back to be “ counted as enemies ”, which probably meant being sold into slavery.
They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".
In Demonstration ( 74 ) Irenaeus reinforced his view that Jesus was at least 45 with the statement " For Herod the king of the Jews and Pontius Pilate, the governor of Claudius Caesar, came together and condemned Him to be crucified.
Even so, to avoid becoming a private citizen and thus be open to prosecution for his debts, Caesar left for his province before his praetorship had ended.
Caesar proposed a law for the redistribution of public lands to the poor, a proposal supported by Pompey, by force of arms if need be, and by Crassus, making the triumvirate public.
Caesar was still deeply in debt, but there was money to be made as a governor, whether by extortion or by military adventurism.
Caesar had four legions under his command, two of his provinces bordered on unconquered territory, and parts of Gaul were known to be unstable.

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