| A | B |
|---|
| Cornelia | first wife of Caesar |
| Agrippa | Octavian's general at the battle of Actium |
| propraetor | Caesar served in this office in Spain |
| pontifex maximus | head of the Roman state religion |
| Optimates | aristocratic party |
| Populares | democratic party |
| quaestor | first step in the cursus honorum |
| praetor | Caesar became this in 62 B.C. |
| Pompeia | cousin of Pompey, she married Caesar in 67 B.C. |
| Apollonius Molo | famous teacher of oratory |
| Rhodes | where Caesar studied oratory |
| Calpurnia | Caesar's final wife |
| Pompey | his head was presented to Caesar in Alexandria |
| Pharsalus | where Pompey was defeated before he fled to Egypt |
| Munda | battle where Caesar defeated the sons of Pompey |
| Crassus | this member of the 1st triumvirate died in 53 B.C. |
| Cassius | He headed the group of assassins along with Brutus |
| Rubicon | crossing this small river meant that the die was cast for civil war |
| Veni Vidi Vici | said by Caesar, victorius at batle of Zela |
| Gallic War | written account of the seven year war in what is now mostly France |
| Bibulus | Caesar's co-consul in 59 B.C. |
| Sulla | archfoe of Caesar's uncle Marius |
| 44 B.C. | year of Caesar's assassination |
| 100 B.C. | year of Caesar's birth |
| 49 B.C. | year that Caesar crossed the Rubicon |
| Thapsus | Battle fought in north Africa in 46 B.C. |
| Sosigenes | advisor to Cleopatra, he helped Caesar revamp the calendar |
| legion | the largest unit of the army |
| cohort | one tenth of a legon |
| maniple | a third of a cohort |
| century | smallest unit of the army |
| pedites | infantry |
| equites | cavalry |
| dux | commanding general |
| fabri | engineers or mechanics |
| legati | staff officers |
| gladius | sword |
| scutum | shield |
| galea | helmet |
| pilum | a javelin or spear |
| acies triplex | the triple batle line that was the usual Roman battle formation |
| aquila | the eagle which was the standard of the legion |
| cornu | large curved horn |
| tuba | a trumpet which was straight and about three feet long |
| castra | camp |
| fossa | a ditch |
| aries | a battering ram |
| testudo | a screen formed by overlaping shields |
| ballista | a machine that hurled large stones |
| catapulta | a machine for hurling arrows |
| navis longa | a battleship |
| navis oneraria | a ransport ship |
| Iulus | ancestor of Caesar who was the son a Venus |
| Octavia | Antony marries her after he returns to Rome |
| Tarsus | Antony set up his headquarers here as he planned his Parthian invasion |
| Ptolemy Auletes | father of Cleopatra |
| Ptolemy XIII | Co-ruler, and later rival, of Cleopatra |
