A Roman legion raised by Julius Cæsar in Gaul, and so called because they carried a lark's tuft on the top of their helmets. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
A series of histories of the Roman Empire from 157 to 285, ascribed to the six following authors: Delius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, Ælius Lampridius, Vulcatius Gallicanus, Trebellius…
It was thus that Julius Caesar announced to his friend Amintius his victory at Zela, in Asia Minor, over Pharnaces, son of Mithridates, who had rendered aid to Pompey. (Plutarch.) Source…
To be no more. To exist no longer; to be dead. “Cassius is no more.” Shakespeare: Julius Caesar. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894More Kicks than…
(The). Julius Polyaenus, author of Stratagemata, in the second century. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Macedonian MadmanMacedon is not Worthy of Thee A B…
Once the abode of the Roman government of Gaul, as well as of the kings of the first and second dynasties. Here Julius fixed his residence when he was Caesar of Gaul. It is in Paris, but…
or Cesarean Operation. The extraction of a child from the womb by cutting the abdomen (Latin, cæso, cut from the womb). Julius Caesar is said to have been thus brought into the world.…
(To). To throw a reproof at one. The allusion is to knocking one's teeth out by stones. All my faults observed, set in a note book, Learned and conned by rote, to cast into my teeth.…
was introduced to Julius Caesar by Apollodorus in a bale of rich Syrian rugs. When the bale was unbound, there was discovered the fairest and wittiest girl of all the earth, and Caesar…
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