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"Les armes en fer d'Uxellodunum (Puy d'Issolud, Lot), dernière bataille de César en Gaule: Étude paléométallurgique de pointes de flèche ettrait de catapulte" [The iron weapons of Uxellodunum (Puy d'Issolud, Lot), the Caesars' last fight in Gaul. Paleometallurgical study of the arrow heads and the arrow of catapult].
Coin of Pescennius Niger, a Roman usurper who claimed imperial power AD 193–194. Legend: IMP CAES C PESC NIGER IVST AVG. While the imperial government of the Roman Empire was rarely called into question during its five centuries in the west and fifteen centuries in the east, individual emperors often faced unending challenges in the form of usurpation and perpetual civil wars. [30]
Last Words of Saints and Sinners: 700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History. Kregel Publications. ISBN 9780825496455. Pritchard, Maria (2014). I Told You I Was Ill: Famous Last Words and Astonishing Epitaphs. RW Press. ISBN 9781909284357. Ransford, H. Chris (2015).
The Battle of Munda (17 March 45 BC), in southern Hispania Ulterior, was the final battle of Caesar's civil war against the leaders of the Optimates. [1] With the military victory at Munda and the deaths of Titus Labienus and Gnaeus Pompeius (eldest son of Pompey), Caesar was politically able to return in triumph to Rome, and then govern as the elected Roman dictator.
— David Beaton, Archbishop of St Andrews, final Scottish Cardinal prior to the Scottish Reformation (29 May 1546), during his assassination "I came not hither to deny my Lord and Master." [15]: 149 [note 57] — Anne Askew, English writer and poet (16 July 1546), when offered letter of pardon before being burned at the stake for heresy
Gaius Julius Caesar [a] (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC.
Plutarch possibly considered their final chapters to be sufficient; that of the Life of Caesar is particularly powerful on its own. [9] Supporting this view, Christopher Pelling suggests that the Greek historian Appian ended his book on Caesar's Civil War with a comparison between Alexander and Caesar, precisely because he had noted that such ...
"Friends, Romans": Orson Welles' Broadway production of Caesar (1937), a modern-dress production that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare.