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.
In 42 b.c.e., the army of Mark Antony and Octavian (later Caesar Augustus--Luke 2:1) defeated the army of Brutus and Cassius, the assassins of Julius Caesar, on the Plain of Philippi. In honor of his victory Octavian made Philippi a Roman colony and settled the veterans of the battle there.