A final factor in setting the right tone is to determine the purpose of the essay. An author's purpose is the reason for writing. There are three main types of author's purpose: to persuade, to inform or to entertain. If you are trying to convince your reader to believe or to do something, then you are persuading.
Caesar ignored them and at the Battle of Munda, defeated Pompey. There were many civil wars during Rome in the first century B.C., as many high-ranking patricians such as consuls fought to be more powerful than each other.
oPompey left for Greece when news of Caesar's march South of Gaul reached him oPompey and senate called Caesar a tyrant oCaesar responded that Pompey and the senate were tyrannical, and he didn't abuse the cities he captured that already belonged to Rome.