How these things came about and how both pompey and caesar lost their lives, this second book of the civil wars will show. Chapter 1 while these things were going forward in spain, caius trebonius, caesar s lieutenant, who had been left to conduct the assault of massilia, began to raise a mound, vineae, and turrets against the town, on two sides. Julius caesar and pompey the great were two of the greatest generals rome had ever produced. Charles, in the answer to the petition june 1642 speaks of cavaliers as a word by what. The civil wars by julius caesar, part of the internet classics archive. Caesar s commentaries are an outstanding account of extraordinary events by one of the most exceptional men in the history of the world. Soon chariots, cavaliers and horses cover the land. 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. The civil wars has been divided into the following sections.
The supplement of dionysius vossius to caesars first book of the civil war. Julius caesar, commentaries on the civil war, caesars. Caesar, that he might inclose pompey within as narrow a space as possible. 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. In 49 bc they turned against each other and plunged rome into civil war. 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. I think it needless to say any thing here, in opposition to those. The internet classics archive the civil wars by julius caesar. Where caesar s own account leaves off in 48 bc, his lieutenants take up the history, describing the vital battles of munda, spain and thapsus. The civil war is a tense and gripping depiction of his struggle with pompey over the leadership of republican rome a conflict that spanned the entire roman world, from gaul and spain to asia and africa. Both parties disputed every post with great obstinacy.
I think it needless to say any thing here, in opposition to those who pretend, that the following commentaries, concerning the civil war, were not penned by caesar himself. It began as a series of political and military confrontations, between julius caesar 10044 bc, his political supporters. Three different war constellations can be found in the book of. Cavalier was first used by roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier royalist supporters of king charles i and his son charles ii of england during the english civil war. Subsequently, holofernes moves out with the troops. The civil war of caesar penguin classics 9780140441871. War, violence and tyrannicide in the book of judith. Go to previous table of contents book 2, go to next.
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