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.
The battle ended with the complete defeat of the rebels: Spartacus met his death on the field and 6,000 prisoners were crucified by Crassus along the Appian Way, a road built by the censor Appius Claudius in 312 BC to connect Rome with Capua.