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A view from the 2000-year-old historical castle column piece in Zile, Turkey where Julius Caesar said "Veni, vidi, vici".. Veni, vidi, vici (Classical Latin: [ˈu̯eːniː ˈu̯iːd̪iː ˈu̯iː.kiː], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈveːni ˈviːd̪i ˈviː.t͡ʃi]; "I came; I saw; I conquered") is a Latin phrase used to refer to a swift, conclusive victory.
In his last words, Caesar allegedly exclaimed over the fact that his friend and relative Brutus took part in his murder. A person's last words, their final articulated words stated prior to death or as death approaches, are often recorded because of the decedent's fame, but sometimes because of interest in the statement itself.
The phrase "et tu, Brute?" which was used by William Shakespeare in his famous play Julius Caesar as part of Caesar's death scene has become synonymous with betrayal in modern times due to the play's popularity and influence; this has led to the popular belief that the words were Caesar's last words, [29] but in the play itself the words are ...
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The Tribute Money, by Titian (1516), depicts Jesus being shown the tribute penny. "Render unto Caesar" is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ).
To pinch a phrase from Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line: the closer to Caesar, the greater the fear. We live in interesting times. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars ...
Julius Caesar The Roman face of Hercules, about whom the young Caesar wrote a poem. Poems by Julius Caesar are mentioned by several sources in antiquity. [1] None are extant. Plutarch says that verse compositions were among the entertainments Caesar offered the Cilician pirates who captured him as a young man in 75 BC. [2]
After a general introduction to Catullus' vocabulary, a separate vocabulary list is given for subsets of 2–3 poems, e.g., poems 6–8 and 9–10. The words in each list is grouped by declension and gender for nouns and by conjugation for verbs. Scholarship. Burl A (2004). Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar. New York: Carroll and ...