Clue | |
Defeater of Pyrrhus | |
His name is a byword for 'empty victory' | |
The model dictator; George Washington's admirers called him this | |
Caesar routs Pompey | |
He saved Rome from the Gauls | |
First written laws | |
Mythical founder of Rome | |
Members of the First Triumvirate | |
Area of Italy in which Rome is located | |
He fiddled while Rome burned | |
Marc Anthony, Octavian, and Lepidus | |
Stuttering emperor and protagonist of Robert Graves novels | |
Hannibal routes the Romans on this body of water | |
Rome fights with its own allies | |
Series of expansive wars fought in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE | |
Brothers, tribunes, agitators for reform | |
Cicero drove him out of the Senate with one of his most famous speeches | |
Historian of Rome's first emperors | |
Lucius Sulla's reign of terror | |
He was consul seven times | |
Biographer of the Caesars | |
'Little Boot' | |
Augustus banished him to the Black Sea for licentious behavior | |
He committed suicide at Utica to escape Caesar's pardon | |
He said: 'Carthago delenda est!' ('Carthage must be destroyed!') | |
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