Julius Caesar
(italics) a tragedy (1600?) by Shakespeare.
a walled plain in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 55 miles (88 km) in diameter.
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One of the few Americans to respond was Charlton Heston, with whom she had starred in Julius Caesar in 1970.
A soothsayer warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March—a catastrophe looming in the middle of the month.
Julius Caesar and his soldiers drank cider made from crabapples in 55 BC.
Julius Caesar established the Acta Diurna to weaken his political opponents by revealing the proceedings of government.
Julius Caesar was supposedly able to dictate two letters at the same time to different scribes.
From the time of Julius Caesar they were allowed to build synagogues and granted many other privileges.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardCould all the wise men of Rome have explained to Julius Caesar the following dispatch, if given in prophetic vision?
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardWhat sincerity was there in Julius Caesar when he discharged the duties of high-priest of the Republic?
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordHe was a public man; and he turned paler, as he thought of Julius Caesar and Mr. Perceval.
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensIn some respects they are as interesting as are the famous Commentaries of Julius Caesar.
South American Fights and Fighters | Cyrus Townsend Brady
British Dictionary definitions for Julius Caesar
See Caesar (def. 1)
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Cultural definitions for Julius Caesar (1 of 2)
A tragedy by William Shakespeare, dealing with the assassination of Julius Caesar and its aftermath. Some famous lines from the play are “Et tu, Brute?” “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears,” and “Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look.”
A Roman general and dictator in the first century b.c. In military campaigns to secure Roman rule over the province of Gaul, present-day France, he gained much prestige. The Roman senate, fearing his power, ordered him to disband his army, but Caesar refused, crossed the Rubicon River, returned to Rome with his army, and made himself dictator. On a subsequent campaign in Asia, he reported to the senate, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Caesar was assassinated by his friend Brutus (see also Brutus) and others on the ides of March in 44 b.c.
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