Julius Caesar

Also known as Divine Julius

Gaius Julius Caesar fue un general romano, estadista y autor que fue el dictador de la República Romana casi continuamente desde el 49 a. C. hasta su asesinato en el 44 a. C. Miembro del Primer Triunvirato, lideró los ejércitos romanos durante las Guerras Gálicas y derrotó a su rival político Pompeyo en la guerra civil de César. Consolidó el poder y fue titulado dictador perpetuo en el 44 a. C., ayudando a crear las condiciones políticas que llevaron al colapso de la República Romana y al surgimiento del Imperio Romano. Por su papel en estos eventos, es considerado una de las figuras más influyentes de la historia.

Occupation: orator, memoirist, ruler, historian
Position held: Roman dictator, quaestor, curule aedile, ancient Roman senator
Citizenship: Ancient Rome
Born: 100 BC, 100 BC, 102 BC, 100 BC
Died: 44 BC, 44 BC

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Also known as Divine Julius

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“Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit.”
— Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
“I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”
— On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499<!-- ; also quoted in p. 372 Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh
“I will not ... that my wife be so much as suspected.”
— His declaration as to why he had divorced his wife Pompeia, when questioned in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for sacrilege against Bona Dea festivities (from which men were excluded), in entering Caesar's home disguised as a lute-girl apparently with intentions of a seducing Caesar's wife; as reported in Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius by Plutarch, as translated by Thomas North, p. 53
“It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.”
— As reported in Plutarch's Anthony'; William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look."

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