(the Ides of March), he was assassinated in the senate house (known as the Curia), falling at the base of the statue of Pompey, where he uttered those immortal words, "Et tu, Brute?" first recorded by the Roman historian Suetonius (69-122) in The Lives of the Caesars, and borrowed later by Shakespeare. At war's end he acquired the title dictator, but many in Rome opposed him. It was at this time he declared " Alea iacta est" (the die is cast). In 49 the Senate ordered him to disband his army instead he crossed the Rubicon River into Italy, thus initiating the Roman Civil War (49-45). Caesar then turned to military affairs, conquering Gaul in numerous campaigns from 58 to 50. Following the cursus honorum (rungs of the political ladder), he reached the pinnacle when named consul in the year 59 B.C. Young Julius became prominent in Roman politics.
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