Talk:Caesar's civil war

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1 Clean-up
2 Woefully Incomplete!
3 Age?
4 “Veni, vidi, vici”
5 Episodic

[edit] Clean-up

Added a clean-up tag to the article. It has the potential to be quite good, but right now suffers from poor copyediting and structure, which makes it very unclear. Also, a lot of information could be added (infobox, etc.) to make the article more cohesive.

Also, every single source I've ever seen has said that Caesar's famous uttering upon crossing the Rubicon was not "alea iacta est", but the same thing in Greek, which was actually intended to mean "the die is cast". "the dice fly high" makes absolutely no sense, even if it is a transliteration. I'm going to change that back once I can find a definitive source for it. The Chief 02:35, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

The crossing of the Rubicon is dated Jan 10, 49 BC. The link to Menander (and his attributed Rubicon quote) shows a poet who lived ca 342-291 BC. I am not certain how he could have been so prescient. Blacksnail 20:28, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Woefully Incomplete!

Sorry, but it's only half here - it's missing all the background information, etc.

It has the feel of someone filling it in while they watch Rome, which makes me shudder in horror!

The idea is a sound one - but the author needs to put in lot more research.

Battle of Dyrrhachium

etc.

Seriously - this is a subject of a scope that it could be a doctoral thesis - or the career of single historian.

Beowulf314159 21:45, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Turn into a WP:DAB#Summary_or_multi-stub_pages? I'm trying to do so. Neddyseagoon 17:03, 8 March 2006 (UTC)neddyseagoon

[edit] Age?

I think that it is kind of odd to think that Julius Caesar, how great he might be, was around 63 years old when he defeated Pharnaces II in 47 B.C. That just doesn't seem right to me but you may prove me wrong (or right).

Born (probably) 100BC, so I make him 53, not 63 - still, impressive! Neddyseagoon 10:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)neddyseagoon

[edit] “Veni, vidi, vici”

in this it said that he said after partha which is not true he said that after Egypt and also at this point in time the XIII didn't have a title--Rofur 00:10, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Episodic

Removed this statement "Caesar probably writes the Commentaries in this year, although some theories suggest he wrote them one year at a time, in the winter following each year's campaigning" No evidence for this. Probably confused with Gallic Wars. Pengopia (talk) 14:22, 13 April 2008 (UTC)