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Laudatio Iuliae amitae

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The family of my aunt Julia is descended by her mother from the kings and on her father's side is akin to the immortal gods. For the Marcii Reges go back to Ancus Marcius, and the Iulii, the family of which ours is a branch, to Venus. Our stock therefore has at once the sanctity of kings, whose power
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When quaestor, he pronounced the customary orations from the rostra in praise of his aunt Julia and his wife Cornelia, who had both died, and in the eulogy of his aunt he spoke in the following terms of her paternal and maternal ancestry and that of his own father:
184: 119:... called the 'laudatio Iuliae amitae', was an opportunity for Caesar to set out his family's high-ranking credentials. He seized on it with both hands, Suetonius (The Twelve Caesars, Julius Caesar, 6) having him say: The family of my ... 139:
laudatio Iuliae Amitae, as the title implies, is from the oration in memory of his father's deceased sister. This was an important occasion for the nature of the discourse warranted a eulogy of the deceased
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is supreme among mortal men, and the claim to reverence which attaches to the gods, who hold sway over kings themselves.
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funeral oration
Julius Caesar
Julia
Marius
laudatio funebris
Roman historian
Suetonius
Poetry by Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar: Rome's Greatest Warlord
ISBN
978-1-5040-6060-8
Caesar as an Orator
"The Life of Julius Caesar"
Citizendium
Laudatio Iuliae amitae
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Julius Caesar
Early life and career
First Triumvirate
Gallic wars
Caesar's civil war
Crossing the Rubicon
Assassination
Military campaigns
Mytilene
Gallic Wars

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