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.
Pompey fled to Brundisium and began to raise an army against Caesar, who used the moment to secure the position of dictator. The First Triumvirate was a political alliance between Julius Ceasar, Marcus Licinius Crassus, and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (called Pompey) in the 1st century BC.