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In his last words, Caesar allegedly exclaimed over the fact that his friend and relative Brutus took part in his murder. A person's last words, their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches
Julius Caesar is seen as the main example of Caesarism, a form of political rule led by a charismatic strongman whose rule is based upon a cult of personality, whose rationale is the need to rule by force, establishing a violent social order, and being a regime involving prominence of the military in the government. [292]
Although Suetonius, Cassius Dio, and probably Plutarch as well seem to have believed Caesar died without saying anything further, [12] the first two also reported that, according to others, Caesar had spoken the Greek phrase "καὶ σύ τέκνον" (Kaì sý, téknon - You too, child) to Brutus, as (in Suetonius) or after (in Dio) that senator struck at him.
The Tusculum portrait, the only known depiction of Caesar produced during his lifetime. The lex Julia de repetundis ("Julian law on corruption") was a foundational corruption law of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. [1] Its provisions covered all magistrates, governors, and the family and employees thereof.
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Masters of Rome is a series of historical novels by Australian author Colleen McCullough, set in ancient Rome during the last days of the old Roman Republic; it primarily chronicles the lives and careers of Gaius Marius, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Pompey the Great, Gaius Julius Caesar, and the early career of Caesar Augustus.
Julia Marcia, Caesar's aunt. Pompeia, Caesar's second wife. Cornelius Nepos, a biographer and historian. Catullus, a poet who loved Clodia. The poems of Catullus included in the novel are the actual poems, although some are offered in Wilder's translation. Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and mistress of Caesar.