Word: caesarize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bargaining for the much-needed fleet of King Nicomedes of Bithynia, Caesar was faced with one condition; the King would lend his fleet "if the handsome young Roman noble would sleep with him." Although he was always known as an enthusiastic ladies' man, Caesar agreed, and felt he had done his country a patriotic turn...
...failed to see that he had outraged all highborn Romans, who did not necessarily disapprove of homosexuality, but felt that Caesar had prostituted himself...
Three's a Crowd. During the next 20 years, Caesar climbed nimbly up the Roman ladder of state offices-quaestor, aedile, praetor, consul. He became a proper pol. He curried favor with Crassus, the richest man in Rome, and married off his daughter to Pompey, the most powerful...
...famed Triumvirate, or rule of three, had begun, and at first Caesar did not find three a crowd. Caesar was 39 before he had an active troop command, 41 when he began his conquest of Gaul; yet he proved a legendary general...
...tight spot, he could pick up a broadsword and lead a charge with the doughtiest of his centurions. He never killed for fun, but he killed wholesale. Many Romans were shocked when his legions slaughtered 430,000 Germanic tribesmen in one day, when their envoys were actually in Caesar's camp seeking peace. Five years later, the Senate, pushed by Pompey, ordered Caesar to lay down his command; instead, Caesar crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome...