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    Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars
    Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars
    Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars
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    Summary of Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars

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    #1 Caesar was very ambitious, and when he returned to Rome after serving with Marcus Thermus in Asia, he began trying to advancement. He was offered a lot of positions by Marcus Lepidus, but he turned them down. He had little confidence in Lepidus’ abilities, and he found the political atmosphere less promising than he had been led to believe.

    #2 When he became a military tribune, Caesar was assigned to Further Spain, where the praetorian governor sent him on an assize circuit. He was heard to sigh impatiently when he saw a statue of Alexander the Great in the Temple of Hercules. The soothsayers interpreted this dream to mean that he was destined to conquer the earth.

    #3 During his aedileship, Caesar began to plan a revolution in Rome. He wanted to limit the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome, but his opponents rushed through a bill limiting the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome.

    #4 After the Catilinarian conspiracy, the entire Roman Senate, with the exception of Caesar, demanded the death of those involved. Caesar only wanted them to be imprisoned and their estates confiscated. He so browbeat those senators who took a sterner line that Decimus Silanus, as consul-elect, felt obliged to interpret his own proposal more liberally.

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    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateMar 22, 2022
    ISBN9781669365297
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      #1

      Caesar was very ambitious, and when he returned to Rome after serving with Marcus Thermus in Asia, he began trying to advancement. He was offered a lot of positions by Marcus Lepidus, but he turned them down. He had little confidence in Lepidus’ abilities, and he found the political atmosphere less promising than he had been led to believe.

      #2

      When he became a military tribune, Caesar was assigned to Further Spain, where the praetorian governor sent him on an assize circuit. He was heard to sigh impatiently when he saw a statue of Alexander the Great in the Temple of Hercules. The soothsayers interpreted this dream to mean that he was destined to conquer the earth.

      #3

      During his aedileship, Caesar began to plan a revolution in Rome. He wanted to limit the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome, but his opponents rushed through a bill limiting the number of gladiators that anyone could keep in Rome.

      #4

      After the Catilinarian conspiracy, the entire Roman Senate, with the exception of Caesar, demanded the death of those involved. Caesar only wanted them to be imprisoned and their estates confiscated. He so browbeat those senators who took a sterner line that Decimus Silanus, as consul-elect, felt obliged to interpret his own proposal more liberally.

      #5

      Caesar was eventually included on a list of Catilinarian conspirators, along with the names of other senators. He was accused of being a member of the plot, but he claimed that he had voluntarily come forward to warn the others about it.

      #6

      Caesar was elected consul, and his first act was to rule that a daily record of proceedings in the Senate and before the people should be taken and published. He also revived the obsolete custom of having an orderly walk before him, during the months in which his colleague held the fasces.

      #7

      Caesar was able to govern Rome alone, and he did so. He signed documents in the consulship of Julius and Caesar rather than Bibulus and Caesar, naming the same man twice. He began an attack on the opposing faction by bribing Vettius to announce that some of them had tried to make him assassinate Pompey.

      #8

      Caesar’s nine years as governor of Gaul produced many positive results. He reduced the province to the form of a province the whole of Gaul enclosed by the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Cevennes, the Rhine and the Rhône, except for certain allied states that had supported him.

      #9

      Caesar spent a lot of time and money to win the public’s favor. He built a new forum in Rome, and gave away valuable presents to various people, including his opponents.

      #10

      The Senate, led by Marcus Claudius

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