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Julius Caesar is generally, and rightly, regarded as one of the six most successful military commanders of all time, alongside Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon. After the defeat of Pompey at ­Pharsalus in Thessaly, Caesar cultivated and acquired a reputation for clemency, forgiving many enemies, foreign and­ Roman—including, unfortunately for him, ­Marcus Brutus, who earlier had aligned himself with Pompey against Caesar. “Caesar’s much-vaunted clemency,” writes Peter Green, “can be dated, with some confidence, to 51 b.c., no earlier”—or, in other words, beginning after his successes in the Gallic Wars.

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