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The ''laudatio Iuliae amitae'' ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that

Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in Caesar's civil wa ...

said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius. The introduction of this '' laudatio funebris'' is reproduced in the work ''Divus Iulius'' by the

Roman historian During the Second Punic War with Carthage, Rome's earliest known annalists Quintus Fabius Pictor and Lucius Cincius Alimentus recorded history in Greek, and relied on Greek historians such as Timaeus. Roman histories were not written in Classi ...

Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is ''De vita Caesarum'', common ...

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Works by Julius Caesar Funeral orations Ancient Roman speeches {{Speech-stub

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