Word: pharsalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military reputation in Gaul and Britain. Returning at the head of a victorious army, he gave the signal for civil war when he crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome. Crassus was already dead; Pompey died miserably after Caesar's legions tore his army to pieces at Pharsalia. Caesar, "voted" dictator, was king in all but name. And when he fell, four years later, under the daggers of Brutus and Cassius, it was only to make way for the more thoroughgoing autocracy of Augustus...
...What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia? Did he beg us to remember our wives and children and the sacred temples of Rome and the glories of our past campaigns? By God, he didn...
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