This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This business being ended, as credit was beginning to fail in italy, and the debts could not be paid, he. The civil war written by gaius julius caesar and three of his followers recounts the events of the civil war between the caesar and pompey the great, including the latters defeat and the subsequent moppingup of his partisans in egypt, pontus, north africa and spain. Written as a narrative, the book begins with the expiration of caesars term as. It began as a series of political and military confrontations, between julius caesar 10044 bc, his political supporters broadly known as populares, and his legions, against the optimates or boni. I will now say nothing concerning the absurd opinion of those who assert that the following commentaries on the civil war were not written by caesar himself. A few comments have been posted about the civil wars. The internet classics archive the civil wars by julius. Even without the authority of suetonius, the diction itself would be sufficient to convince the most skeptical that caesar and no other was the author. I think it needless to say any thing here, in opposition to those.
We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. This business being ended, as credit was beginning to fail in italy, and the debts could not be paid, he determined that arbitrators should be appointed. The supplement of dionysius vossius to caesars first book of the civil war. While these things were going forward in spain, caius trebonius, caesars lieutenant, who had been left to conduct the assault of.
Iulius, 10244 bce, statesman and soldier, defied the dictator sulla. The great roman civil war 4945 bc, also known as caesars civil war, was one of the last politicomilitary conflicts in the roman republic before the establishment of the roman empire. Iulius, 10244 bc, statesman and soldier, defied the dictator sulla. The internet classics archive the civil wars by julius caesar. I will now say nothing concerning the absurd opinion of those who assert that the following commentaries on the civil war were not written by caesar. The great roman civil war 4945 bc, also known as caesars civil war, was one of the last politicomilitary conflicts in the roman republic before the. The loeb edition introduction to the civil wars sets the stage for this particular. Julius caesar, commentaries on the civil war, caesars. The title itself is latin for commentaries on the civil war. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages.
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