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What Is the Julius Caesar's Name?
The phrase crossing the rubicon has meant any step someone takes that commits them irrevocably to a new course of action. Caesar's actual first name, his prenomen in latin, was gaius. In recognition of the great deeds performed by caesar and augustus, two months in the ancient roman calendar were renamed. The fifth month, quintilus became julius, what we now call july. And the sixth month, sextylus became augUSTus, or to day's august.
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