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Caesar, Julius

(Encyclopedia)Caesar, Julius (Caius Julius Caesar), 100? BC–44 BC, Roman statesman and general. Rise to Power Although he was born into the Julian gens, one of the oldest patrician families in Rome, Caesar was al...

Julius Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Julius Caesar: see Caesar, Julius.

Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Caesar s´zr [key], ancient Roman patrician family of the Julian gens. There are separate articles on its two most distinguished members, Julius Caesar and Augustus. Another distinguished member o...

Scaliger, Julius Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Scaliger, Julius Caesar, 1484–1558, Italian philologist and physician in France. Scaliger studied medicine and settled in France (1526), where he worked as a physician. A scholar of profound eruditi...

Caesar, Lucius Julius

(Encyclopedia)Caesar, Lucius Julius: see under Caesar, family.

Calpurnia

(Encyclopedia)Calpurnia klpûr´n [key], d. after 44 BC, Roman matron. The daughter of Lucius Calpurnicus Piso Caesoninus (see under Piso, family), she was married to Julius Caesar in 59 BC She was loyal to h...

Julius

(Encyclopedia)Julius, in the New Testament, centurion in whose charge Paul was sent to Rome.

Baronius, Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Baronius, Caesar br´ns [key], 1538–1607, Italian ecclesiastical historian, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He went to Rome c.1557 and soon came under the tutelage of St. Philip Neri....

Rodney, Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Rodney, Caesar, 1728–84, American political leader, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. near Dover, Del. He was a member of the Delaware assembly (1761–70, 1772–76), its speaker (1769,...

Germanicus Caesar

(Encyclopedia)Germanicus Caesar jrmn´ks [key], 15 BC–AD 19, Roman general, son of Drusus Senior. He was adopted (AD 4) by his uncle Emperor Tiberius. Germanicus fought (AD 8) in Pannonia and Dalmatia and...