They were important in shaping Caesar's public image and enhancing his reputation when he was away from Rome for long periods. Cato may have been responsible for the law requiring declarations of candidacy in person within the pomerium.

He then served at the Siege of Mytilene where he won the civic crown for saving the life of a fellow citizen in battle. Off course you have to consider the kind of damage his parents divorce had on him and his father's hidden sexuality later revealed. He, however, withdrew from the island in the face of winter uprisings in Gaul led by the Eburones and Belgae starting in late 54 BC which ambushed and virtually annihilated a legion and five cohorts. Other people in history, such as the French Napoleon Bonaparte and the Italian Benito Mussolini, have defined themselves as Caesarists.It is very homogeneous/ hetero-normative and being in a catholic institution is not the easiest environment for queer students. The recorded sum for the ransom is literary embellishment and it is more likely that the pirates were sold into slavery per Velleius Paterculus.

The stories were repeated, referring to Caesar as the " Queen of Bithynia", by some Roman politicians as a way to humiliate him.Throughout the whole series I genuinely believed Chandler was a straight man, just goofy like that; but watching Joey say that he kissed another dude has given me serious doubts.

By this point he had started preparations for war on the Parthians to avenge Crassus' death at Carrhae in 53 BC, with wide-ranging objectives that would take him into Dacia for three or more years. The letterform Æ is a ligature of the letters A and E, and is often used in Latin inscriptions to save space.

He was alleged to have wanted to join in on the consul Lepidus' revolt that year [20] but this is likely literary embellishment of Caesar's desire for tyranny from a young age. If bribes or other monies were needed, they may have been underwritten by Pompey, whom Caesar at this time supported and who opposed Catulus' candidacy. As 50 BC progressed, fears of civil war grew; both Caesar and his opponents started building up troops in southern Gaul and northern Italy, respectively.

Then, the plosive /k/ before front vowels began, due to palatalization, to be pronounced as an affricate, hence renderings like [ˈtʃeːsar] in Italian and [ˈtseːzar] in German regional pronunciations of Latin, as well as the title of Tsar. notes that senators may have wanted to curry favour or otherwise, by giving him excessive honours, show the public Caesar's tyrannical ambitions. Their attempts to amass political power were opposed by many in the Senate, among them Cato the Younger with the private support of Cicero. This form of slander was popular during this time in the Roman Republic to demean and discredit political opponents. The archives are located in Vancouver's West End, traditionally the epicenter of the city's gay and lesbian community.Deeply indebted from his campaigns for the praetorship and for the pontificate, Caesar required military victory beyond the normal provincial extortion to pay them off. His success was evidently recognised when the Senate voted state funds for some of Caesar's legions, which until this time Caesar had paid for personally. The privileges of the crown – the Senate was supposed to stand on a holder's entrance and holders were permitted to wear the crown at public occasions – whetted Caesar's appetite for honours. He defeated two of Pompey's legates at the Battle of Ilerda before forcing surrender of the third; his legates moved into Sicily and into Africa, though the African expedition failed. Caesar's governor in Spain, moreover, was sufficiently unpopular that the province revolted and switched to the republican side.