Julius Caesar

100–44 BC · Roman general, statesman & dictator

Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) was a Roman general and politician whose conquest of Gaul and victory in the civil war made him dictator of Rome. A noted prose stylist, he wrote his own Commentaries on those wars; the clipped, self-promoting economy of “veni, vidi, vici” is very much in that voice. He was assassinated in the Senate on the Ides of March, 44 BC.

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“I came, I saw, I conquered”

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“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes”

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“The die is cast”

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