. reat,who had assisted Pompey. He defeated Phar-naces near Zela with such ease, that he informedthe senate of his victory by the words, Veni,vidi, vici. (Cf. Bell. Alex. 77.) He reachedRome in September (47), was appointed consulfor the following year, and before the end ofSeptember set sail for Africa, where Scipio andCato had collected a large army. The war wanterminated by the defeat of the Pompeian army 184 CAESAR at the battle of Thapsus, on the 6th of April,46. Cato, unable to defend Utica, put an endto his own life.—Caesar re
. reat,who had assisted Pompey. He defeated Phar-naces near Zela with such ease, that he informedthe senate of his victory by the words, Veni,vidi, vici. (Cf. Bell. Alex. 77.) He reachedRome in September (47), was appointed consulfor the following year, and before the end ofSeptember set sail for Africa, where Scipio andCato had collected a large army. The war wanterminated by the defeat of the Pompeian army 184 CAESAR at the battle of Thapsus, on the 6th of April,46. Cato, unable to defend Utica, put an endto his own life.—Caesar returned to Borne inthe latter end of July. He was now the undis-puted master of the Roman world, but he usedhis victory with the greatest moderation. Un-like other conquerors in civil wars, he freelyforgave all who had borne arms against him,and declared that he would make no differencebetween Pompeians and Caesarians. His cle-mency was one of the brightest features of hischaracter. At Rome all parties seemed to viein paying him honour: the dictatorship was. C. Julius Caesar, the Dictator. In this coin the naturalbaldness of his head is concealed by a crown of the reverse the name of the quaestor L. Aem. Buca,who struck the coin, is surmounted by a palm as signof victory, and a winged caduceus and joined hands assigns of peace. bestowed on him for ten years, and the censor-ship, under the new title of Praefectus Morum,for three years. He celebrated his victories inGaul, Egypt, Pontus, and Africa by four magni-ficent triumphs. Caesar now proceeded tocorrect the various evils which had crept intothe state, and to obtain the enactment of severallaws suitable to the altered condition of thecommonwealth. The most important of hismeasures this year (46) was the reformation ofthe calendar. As the Roman year was now threemonths in advance of the real time, Caesaradded ninety days to this year, and thus made thewhole year consist of 445 days ; and he guardedagainst a repetiti
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