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Ancient Rome Today March 15, 44 BC All the News Romans Need to Know Rome Italy BREAKING NEWS Julius Caesar Stabbed By Senate By Josh Habius Today March 15, 44 B.C., we mourn because our great and powerful ruler Julius Caesar was assassinated. The Senate decided to Name meet today a building made by As Julius Caesar By Your or ainRoman version ofPompey. it was getting ready to speak, the conspirators surrounded him. Tillius then grabbed Caesar’s robe with both hands and violently pulled it from his neck. The rest of the accomplices took out daggers and began to strike Caesar until his death. According to recent reports, his final words were, “Et tu, Brute?” He was betrayed by one of his closest friends. Now tonight we would like to look back on the life of Julius Caesar. In 60 B.C., Julius Caesar formed a triumvirate with Crassus and Pompey to help restore order to Rome. They helped to get him elected consul in 59 B.C. After serving his one year as the consul, he went to Gaul and when he arrived, he appointed himself governor of Gaul. Over the next eight years, he was able to conquer the entire territory that was Gaul. In his journal, the Commentaries, he showed how he rallied his troops in battle: “I had no shield with me but I snatched one from a soldier in the rear ranks and went forward to the front line. Once there, I called to all the centurions by name and shouted encouragement to the rest of the men…My arrival gave the troops fresh hope…” However, his alliance with Pompey turned to bloody hate. Once good friends in a triumvirate, Pompey and Julius Caesar were now political rivals. Pompey ordered Julius Caesar to return back to Rome, but without his army with him. Caesar disobeyed orders and marched into Rome with his army. He defeated Pompey’s forces in Rome, Africa, Spain, and Egypt. Then, in 46 B.C., he was elected dictator and in 44 B.C., the Senate declared him “dictator for life”. He ruled as an absolute ruler who made drastic changes to Rome. He expanded the Senate, giving more jobs to his friends and allies. He worked to create jobs, such as constructing new public buildings, for the poor. He helped to make changes where they needed to be made and changed Rome forever. Roman historian Plutarch stated that the reason Caesar was so effective was that his love and loyalty always gave his men a new hope. “He was so much master of the good-will and hearty service of his soldiers that those who in other expeditions were but ordinary men displayed a courage past defeating or withstanding when they went upon any danger where Caesar’s glory was concerned…This love of honor and passion for distinction were Julius Caesar being stabbed by inspired into them and cherished in them by Caesar himself, who, the Senate by his unsparing distribution of money and honors, showed them that he did not heap up wealth from the wars for his own luxury, or the gratifying his private pleasures, but that all he received was but a public fund laid by the reward and encouragement of valor…” Genius Geyerius agreed and added , “Caesar knew our struggles because he fought in all of our battles alongside us. His bravery inspired us all to do the best that we could and to never accept defeat. Without him there, we never would have been able to conquer all this land that is now a part of the great Roman Empire.” Many in Rome will mourn the loss of Julius Caesar, one of the greatest conquerors ever. Source(s): World History: Perspectives on the Past by D.C. Heath World History (The Complete Idiot’s Guide) by Timothy C. Hall A History of Europe by J.M. Roberts N.Y.: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1996 The Internet Classics Archive – Caesar by Plutarch Ancient Romans by Rosaline F and Charles F Baker