This man defeated Juba at the Battle of Thapsus, but his former companion Titus Labienus managed to escape him.
Early in this man's career he made a funeral oration for his aunt Julia that emphasized a dual familial lineage from gods and kings, a speech known as the Laudatio Iuliae amitae. This man's pledge to build a temple to Venus Victrix if he won a certain battle was ignored when he instead built a Temple to Venus Genetrix. He increased the size of the Senate from 600 to 900 and was the subject of persistent rumors about a homosexual affair with (*) Nicomedes IV. This man defeated Juba at the Battle of Thapsus, but his former companion Titus Labienus managed to escape him. The result of that battle also caused the suicide of Cato the Younger at Utica. Plutarch's Parallel Lives pairs Alexander the Great with this husband of Calpurnia, who described his victory over Vercingetorix in Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. The victor at Pharsalus, for 10 points, identify this member of the First Triumvirate along with Crassus and Pompey, a Roman who famously crossed the Rubicon.
Early in this man's career he made a funeral oration for his aunt Julia that emphasized a dual familial lineage from gods and kings, a speech known as the Laudatio Iuliae amitae.
Gaius Julius Caesar