We assume from its guidelines that Chicago would recommend “waldorf salad” and “caesar salad.” The style guide acknowledges that while it prefers to lowercase proper names “in their nonliteral use,” some such names “are capitalized in Webster’s.”

(Entry 1 of 2) 1 : any of the Roman emperors succeeding Augustus Caesar —used as a title. 2a often not capitalized : a powerful ruler: (1) : emperor.

noun

1. 1A title used by Roman emperors, especially those from Augustus to Hadrian. See also Julius Caesar.
2. 2British Medicine. informal A caesarean section.

In Canada, the preferred spelling is Caesar, not Cesar. An upper case C is preferred in such expressions as Caesar salad and Caesarean section because they refer to specific people. The Caesar salad is named for its creator, Caesar Cardini.

In general, you should capitalize the first word, all nouns, all verbs (even short ones, like is), all adjectives, and all proper nouns. That means you should lowercase articles, conjunctions, and prepositions—however, some style guides say to capitalize conjunctions and prepositions that are longer than five letters.

pertaining to Caesar or the Caesars: a Caesarean conquest.

Here are some adjectives for venice: cool, mute, wise and often-cynical, worldly wise and often-cynical, clean, gridded, languid autumnal, thy superb, strong pious, noble and voluptuous, memorable or beautiful, sole and beautiful, slender, opal, weary, forlorn, false and crafty, queer rococo, small abortive, wealthy …

List of Adjectival and Demonyms for the United States

The leading vowels in each part of the name are long, and in Classical Latin, the whole name was pronounced [ˈɡajjʊs ˈjuːlɪ. ʊs ˈkae̯sar], or, alternatively, with praenomen pronounced trisyllabically as [ˈɡaːɪ. ʊs]. In Greek, during Caesar’s time, his name was written Καῖσαρ, which was pronounced more or less the same.

According to a consensus of Latin scholars, the letter V in ancient Latin was pronounced as [w]. This seems to make sense, because there was no distinguishing between V and U, so the letter V could mark either the vowel [u] or its semivocalic counterpart [w] (much like with the letter I).

He’s naming himself after Julius Caesar most likely and that’s how you say his name. The Romans spoke Latin and that is how they pronounced his name so for you illiterate people out there it’s Caesar not kaizar.

Gaius Julius Caesar

Known for: Caesar Augustus (63 BC – 14 AD) was the first Roman emperor and one of the most successful. He reigned for 45 years and was ruling at the time of Jesus Christ’s birth. Bible References: Caesar Augustus is mentioned in the Gospel of Luke 2:1.

“Caesar” was used as a title, but was also the name of a clan within the Julian line. The first emperor bequeathed the title Augustus to his adopted heir and successor Tiberius in his will. From then on, though it conferred no specific legal powers, Augustus was a titular element of the imperial name.

Julius Caesar transformed Rome from a republic to an empire, grabbing power through ambitious political reforms. Julius Caesar was famous not only for his military and political successes, but also for his steamy relationship with Cleopatra.

Using existing busts of Julius Caesar and 3D technology, archaeologist and anthropologist Maja d’Hollosy has created a lifelike image of what Caesar would have looked like in the flesh, including his large cranium and almost pinched features, perhaps as a result of his skull deformity.

Caesar’s rule helped turn Rome from a republic into an empire. Sulla before him had also had strong individual powers, but Caesar’s appointment as Dictator for life made him an emperor in all but name. His own chosen successor, Octavian, his great nephew, was to become Augustus, the first Roman Emperor.

Julius Caesar was a hero to many plebeians because he made many great accomplishments of the government , Rome, and for the poor. Julius Caesar also improved the Roman calendar to the Julian calendar, and he granted citizenship to people living outside of Rome.

He invaded Britain to protect Rome. As he said in his Gallic Wars, ‘He made this decision because he found that the British had been aiding the enemy in almost all our wars with the Gauls’. Caesar always wrote about himself in the third person.

The Roman army helped the Roman empire expand and conquer large areas of land. The soldiers were well-trained and disciplined. Many soldiers were Roman citizens and were known as legionaries. This training combined with having the most advances equipment at the time made the Roman army really powerful.

Finally, in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would ever again rule from a post in Italy, leading many to cite 476 as the year the Western Empire suffered its deathblow.

legionaries

Legio IX Hispana

This may help; documented Imperial regulations tell us that the minimum height for a soldier was about 165 cm or 5’5″. Most scholars agree that the height of a soldier would range from about 165cm to about 175cm, making the average height at around 170 cm or 5’7″. The roman empire was “global” already.

Praetorian Guard

Augusta Legion

It was a canny tactic, but one the hyper-aggressive Romans would not embrace for long. In 216 B.C., they elected Gaius Terentius Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus as co-consuls and equipped them with eight legions—the largest army in the Republic’s history. Its mission was clear: confront Hannibal’s army and crush it.

• Spartacus. Probably one of the most well-known gladiators in history.
• Marcus Attilius. He started off as a free man, choosing to join the gladiator school due to the massive debt he had accumulated over the years.
• Tetraites.
• Priscus & Verus.
• Spiculus.
• Flamma.
• Carpophorus.

Each legion had between 4,000 and 6,000 soldiers. A legion was further divided into groups of 80 men called ‘centuries’.