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 | crosing 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 XII (Auletes) | Father of Cleopatra |
Younger brother of Cleopatra | Ptolemy XIV |