Curiosities and legends about the men who made Rome great, pag 2

Curiosities and legends about the men who made Rome great

It is said that Aeneas' son, Iulus, founded Alba Longa, where the story began. The gens Iulia descended from Iulus: the family of Julius Caesar. Caesar was born in Rome on July 12, 100 BC. Caesar in the Carthaginian language means elephant, one of his ancestors had killed one in battle, at the time of the Punic Wars

  • Caesar was born in Rome on July 12, 100 BC 
  • Caesar in the Carthaginian language means elephant. One of his ancestors had killed one in battle, at the time of the Punic Wars
  • The Romans will give the name Londinium to the current city of London which is a name of Latin origin 
  • Octavian was Caesar's great-nephew, his mother, Atia, was the daughter of Caesar's sister
  • If the month of Quintilis had become July in honor of Julius Caesar, who was born in that month, the following month, Sextils, became August in honor of Augustus, even though he was actually born on September 23
  • On the night of October 27, 312 AD, Constantine goes to sleep. The next day he will have to lay siege to Rome. In his dream he heard the voice: en touto Nika. In Greek. He will translate the message to his men in Latin In hoc signo vinces. God told him: in this sign, in the sign of the cross, you will win
  • Aristocratic, effeminate, cultured, lover of the arts, he wears his toga almost untied. His name is Caius Cilnius Maecenas and it will persist over the centuries to indicate a figure of protector and patron of artists: a Maecenas precisely 
  • Carthaginians in Latin also called Puni (ergo Punic Wars)
  • The first great reform of the republican age, 494 years before the birth of Jesus, was the introduction of the tribune of the plebs: the defender of the People, with the right to veto unwelcome laws
  • Lupa in Latin means prostitute