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As the Roman historian Tacitus famously wrote:Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace.Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their center and become popular. Romans welcomed any theology as long as believers also kneeled to the Imperial deities; after all, the god(s) of Rome had defeated their gods. Later mythologists of Rome would devise that Rome and Phoenicia's glorious capital Carthage were founded in the same year, namely 753 BC, like two twins brothers. Another rule was that every citizen could appeal to the justice system and rectify perceived wrongs (note that 25% of Rome's populace was citizen; the rest was slave).
And, most wonderfully, one could rob blind entire nations without having to launch a costly war, and amass wealth that could be precisely counted and compared to the next guy's.The Phoenicians were fortified merchants, the Romans were armed lawyers, and where the twain met a clash emerged that lasted for centuries, and perhaps quintessentially to this day everywhere a government over-regulates the commercial market and merchants devise schemes to regain their freedoms. Spartianus' musings were incorporated in the famous And he adds: "At any rate, whatever the truth, it was a happy fate which ordained the growth of a name so illustrious, destined to last as long as the universe endures".Let's have a look at the first two of Spartianus' etymologies:According to the men of the greatest learning and scholarship whom Spartianus says to have consulted, the name Caesar might have come from someone slaying an elephant in battle. Rome wouldn't come as close to annihilation until the joint Why Caesar would be called Elephant in Moorish and not The elephant is the largest of them all, and in intelligence approaches the nearest to man. That army gave them power, the power corrupted and the Phoenician empire began its gradual decline.
The title Caesar (as Tsar or Kaiser) remained in use until the twentieth century. Its cardinal rule was that no one man was to ever have all power. Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant ("Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you") is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De vita Caesarum ("The Life of the Caesars", or "The Twelve Caesars").
Three years after Tiberius' son Drusus's death in 23 AD, he moved to the island of Capri and left the empire in the hands of one John the Baptist began his ministry when Tiberius moved to Capri (When Tiberius died his grand-nephew and adopted grandson Caligula (12 AD — 41 AD) became emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (37 AD — 41 AD).
But, unlike lions and bears, the eighteen recruited elephants refused to fight and ran away from their tormentors. By the time people began to wonder about the actual etymology of the name Caesar, the meaning of it had been firmly established: it described the divine Savior of the World; a man-god of astounding handsomeness and vigor, the father of the divine Roman empire.
There he learned about widely circulating rumors, based on ancient prophecies, that the rulers of the world would come from Judea (Cassius Dio Vespasian brought back the cult of the divine Julius Caesar. In time, humanity will evolve into two kinds of post-humans: one kind will form a global government that will make sure that nobody is suppressing anyone, and the other kind will people the earth, all as free human beings, or Christs (Julius Caesar's grand-nephew, adopted son and successor Gaius Octavius (63 BC — 14 AD) became emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Filius Augustus (27 BC — 14 AD), who turned the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. ""Nascetur pulchra Trojanus origine Caesar, / imperium oceano, famam qui terminet astris, / Julius, a magno demissum nomen Iulo"., knowing that this people had deserved very well of the Romans, detached, about nine o'clock, at night eleven cohorts, with a like number of horse, under the command of L. Paciecus, a man known in that province, and also well acquainted with it. One could easily finance ventures abroad without actually having to leave one's house. Caesar definition, Roman general, statesman, and historian.