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did  · The Gallic Wars Over, Gaul reduced to 3 the banquet hall, leaped to a chariot, drove speedily  
peaceful Roman province and his term as prO_ southward, his cavalry thundering behind.
consul about to expire, Julius Caesar had de- Rusjdgga hgaegfaa far filiahagkdt di da<=Aii*;,i; gig
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»tl`a» ` clsions ta make' It_ was the bleak wm_t€r gf Gaul-Governor Caesar paused until his horsemen
SO-49 B.C. but Julius Caesar Chaféd 111 his caught up. Here was the frontier he might not legally
flac- Thirteenth Legionis carriP at Ravenna, South- cross—in arms, and accompanied by his legions. Caesar
ernmost city Of Cisalpinc Gaul. Events at knew that five thousand of_h1s foot soldiers were
R disturbed him The Old triumvirate already _well across the Rubicon, well on their way l
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a Ca€sa!'. P0iT1P€Y» Crassus. had ended with Ci”as· weld his cavalrymen still closer to him, to nourish
sus' death, and now world-conquering Pompey the fast-swe}1i¤a Caesar {ese¤d· se. slowly. earnestly. -
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{GH- Caesan Suptieme only In Qauh but coijmtmg fortunes (a murmur from the ranks), and if I do pass I ‘
on the devotion of his Legions, braced himself ir, I go to make a world of people miserable? (a
_ for an inevitable conflict. As TIME, had it cheer frem the ranks). For gm instant he hesitatagi. ·
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would have reported subsequent events: voice ~Let the die be east!"__, Y
‘ Two hours later Caesar overtook his foot soldiers
1 _ . . . . To Julius Caesar came travel-stained Tribunes at Ariminuml and by su,-pup invested the sm-rounding
iir ei Mark Antony and Quintus Cassius Longinus, bearing countryside. Soon fleeing peasants were carrying to
bad h°Ws? Oh January 7th, the Sfhatc. ihtimidaisd Rome inspired rumors that great Caesar with all his
, v hY P°i'¤P¢Y,s Pariisahs. had dsciarcd Caesar guilty 0i Legions was coming to avenge himself on Pompeius
mh . high Ii”sas0¤ if he did not ai 0¤€s resign his Pre- Magnus. Rome gasped in horror, remembering all
_ C0hs¤ish_iP ef Gaul. djsband hrs i€gi0IIs· For s€€k1_¤E too vividly the butcheries of too-recent civil strife
,, by  . to exegcise their traditional right of veto, tlaéey, Trib- betyvcen Marjans and Sullang ____
· unes ntony and Cassius, had been houn ed rom - · ·
Rome by Pompey’s soldiery. As they blurted out SO too' m succeedlng 1SSu€S’ would TIME
Id,]. ; their story, long-nosed Caesar listened quietly, smiled have reported hdw Caesar drove PdrriP€Y out
I faintly. Then sharply, he issued orders to the Cen- of Rome, then, relentlessly, out of Italy; how ~
ruimhs ef the Thii'i°°hih L°gi°h· after four years of bitter civil war throughout
ma,” 1 f S§>0{1g00t S0ldi2?fS inlsmaii %I‘°gPs 2;* Our rgr the Empire, Caesar returned to Rome trium-
  ate u riminum 30 mi es away , rst oman C1 y · -1- d_ t·l
_ beyond the Gallic frontier. Caesar himself feasted phantl master. Of theh cllvl ized wor] un 1
` and dined until mid-evening, then suddenly he left assassinated six mont S aref-
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