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Between the city of Ilerda, and the hill where Petreius and Afranius were encamped was a plain of about three hundred paces, in the midst of which was a rising ground, which Caesar wanted to take possession of; because, by that means, he could cut off the enemy's communication with the town and bridge, and render the magazines they had in the ...
A quaestor (British English: / ˈ k w iː s t ər / KWEE-stər, American English: / ˈ k w i s t ər /; Latin: [ˈkʷae̯stɔr]; "investigator") [1] was a public official in ancient Rome. There were various types of quaestors, with the title used to describe greatly different offices at different times.
The career of Julius Caesar before his consulship in 59 BC was characterized by military adventurism and political persecution. Julius Caesar was born on 12 July 100 BC into a patrician family, the gens Julia, which claimed descent from Iulus, son of the legendary Trojan prince Aeneas, supposedly the son of the goddess Venus. His father died ...
Quintus Cassius Longinus, the brother or cousin of Cassius (the assassin of Julius Caesar), was a governor in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal) for Caesar. Cassius was one of the tresviri monetales of the Roman mint in 55 BC. He served as a quaestor of Pompey in Hispania Ulterior in 54 BC.
Gaius Julius Caesar is a quaestor in Spain. Egypt ... Kydonia, an ancient city on the island of Crete falls to Roman military forces. [2] ... Caesar and Bibulus are ...
This is a list of cities and towns founded by the Romans.. It lists cities established and built by the ancient Romans to have begun as a colony, often for the settlement of citizens or veterans of the legions.
Each of Caesar's five legates and his quaestor were given command of a legion. Caesar lined up on the right flank. [45] Ariovistus countered by lining up his seven tribal formations. Caesar was victorious in the ensuing battle due in large part to the charge made by Publius Crassus, son of Marcus Crassus. As the Germanic tribesmen began to ...
Hispania Ulterior (English: "Further Hispania", or occasionally "Thither Hispania" [1]) was a Roman province located in Hispania (on the Iberian Peninsula) during the Roman Republic, roughly located in Baetica and in the Guadalquivir valley of modern Spain and extending to all of Lusitania (modern Portugal, Extremadura and a small part of Salamanca province) and Gallaecia (modern Northern ...