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Gaius Julius Caesar

Caesar

also: C. Caesar, Caesar, Gaius Caesar

Roman general and dictator. Campaigning in Britain, he learned of the death of his daughter Julia and resumed command within three days.

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Consolation to His Mother Helvia §9 Gaius Caesar sailed past
Gaius Julius Caesar, the dictator, who could not bear to see the exiled Marcellus and sailed past Mytilene; he later pardoned him.
Consolation to Marcia §14 Gaius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar, who learned of his daughter Julia's death while campaigning in Britain and resumed command within three days.
On Benefits §2.20.1 the deified Julius
Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), dictator, deified after his death; he spared Brutus at Pharsalus before Brutus joined the conspiracy against him.
On Benefits §5.16.5 Pompey's own enemy and conqueror
Julius Caesar, who turned the armies of Gaul and Germany against Rome and 'sheathed his sword quickly but never laid it down.'
On Benefits §5.24.1 the deified Julius
Julius Caesar, divus Iulius after his deification; the veteran reminds him of a shared hardship in Spain to claim his help.
On the Firmness of the Wise Man §1.3 Caesars
Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC) and his kind; named with the Pompeys as the towering powers of the late Republic.
On Anger §2.23 Gaius Caesar
Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), who burned unread the captured correspondence of his opponents — pardon by refusing to know the offense. (Distinct from the emperor Caligula, also called Gaius Caesar.)
On Anger §3.30 the deified Julius
Julius Caesar, killed by friends whose insatiable hopes he could not fill.
On Providence §2.10 Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), victor of the civil war; his soldiers besiege the gates while Cato chooses death over submission to one man's dominion.
Moral Letters to Lucilius §2.14.12 Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), whose crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC began the civil war against Pompey and the senate; victor, dictator, and — to Cato — the 'master' chosen over a ruined liberty.
Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.83.12 after overcoming Pompey
Julius Caesar the dictator (assassinated 44 BC), here distinguished from the emperor Gaius (Caligula) of earlier letters: 'the Caesar who, after defeating Pompey, held the state.'
Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.29 Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (100–44 BC), victor of the civil war and dictator.
Natural Questions §4.pr.21 Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar, whose fortune Sicily "wore out" in the contest for empire.
Octavia §510 Caesar fell
Julius Caesar, dictator and conqueror, assassinated in 44 BC by men he had pardoned.