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What three explanations does suetonius give as to why Caesar was so unprotected on the Ides of March?
Here is an extract from the text of the Life of Julius Caesar in The lives of the Caesars by Suetonius:
86 Caesar left in the minds of some of his friends the suspicion that he did not wish to live longer and had taken no precautions, because of his failing health; and that therefore he neglected the warnings which came to him from portents and from the reports of his friends. Some think that it was because he had full trust in the last decree of the senators and their oath that he dismissed even the armed bodyguard of Spanish soldiers that formerly attended him. Others, on the contrary, believe that he elected to expose himself once for all to the plots that threatened him on every hand, rather than to be always anxious and on his guard. Some, too, say that he was wont to declare that it was not so much to his own interest as to that of his country that he remain alive; he had long since had his fill of power and glory; but if aught befell him, the commonwealth would have no peace, but would be plunged in strife under much worse conditions.
87 About one thing almost all are fully agreed, that he all but desired such a death as he met; for once when he read in Xenophon [a Greek historian, philosopher and soldier] how Cyrus [the Persian emperor] in his last illness gave directions for his funeral, he expressed his Horror of such a lingering kind of end and his wish for one which was swift and sudden. And the day before his murder, in a conversation which arose at a dinner at the house of Marcus Lepidus, as to what manner of death was most to be desired, he [Ceasar] had given his preference to one which was sudden and unexpected.
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When was the beware the ides of march?
On the Ides of March day [currently 15th of March] in the Roman calendar Julius Caesar was assassinated. The frase "be ware the ides of March" it was a warning message to Julius Caesar given to him prior of that date. When Julius Caesar in the morning of that date met the person who warned him said "the ides of March has come" and the reply was "aye Caesar but not gone"
How did Caeser die?
On the Ides of March (the 15th), 44 BC, Gaius Julius Caesar was set upon by up to 60 of his senators and stabbed 23 times.
What is the modern name of the city which was the battle site associated with the phrase Veni vidi vici?
Julius Caesar's "veni, vidi, vici" was not associated with a city. It was associated with the kingdom of Pontus (in north-eastern Turkey) rather than a city. When the Romans were fighting the civil war between the forces of Caesar and the senate, Pharnaces II, the king of Pontus, took advantage of this to seize neighbouring Colchis and Lesser Armenia. Caesar undertook a rapid march on Pontus and swiftly defeated Pharnaces at the Battle of Zela (47 BC). His five-day campaign so swift and his victory so complete that Caesar said "Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I won). The sentence was also meant to be a snide remark about Pompey the Great, his enemy in the civil war. Sixteen year earlier, Pompey had struggled to defeat another king of Pontus in the Third Mithridatic War (73-63 BC) whereas he defeated Pontus quickly and easily. Caesar put Pompey's reputation as a great general into question. Caesar had also defeated Pompey at the Battle of Pharsalus a year before his defeat of Pharnaces. The ancient historian Suetonius said that these three words were deployed in the triumphal ceremony in Rome which celebrated this victory. The Battle of Zela took place near Zela, which is now Zile, in the Tokat Province of Turkey.
What was some of the good things that Caesar did for rome?
If you means Julius Caesar, he enlarged the empire by adding Gaul. He also mopped up in Spain. He had plans for debt relief and some land reform in the works. He gave the Roman people a new calendar and the first newspaper. In his will he left a bonus to every citizen. These are just a few of Caesar's benefits to Rome.
What happened in March 15 44BC in Rome?
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