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There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

— Frederic William Farrar

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.

— David Denman

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.

— Alan Furst

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

— Flavius Josephus

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

— Abraham Lincoln

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

— Spike Milligan

At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

— Tony Bradman

✗Opposing Perspectives

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

— John Lothrop Motley

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

— Hannibal Buress

King Charles, who was also the Holy Roman Emperor, lived and worked in hard bare rooms with no carpets, crowding to the fire in winter, using the window's sunshine in summer.

— Paul Horgan