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.
A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio defeated the Carthagian army led by Hannibal (who had been recalled with his army from Italy to defend Carthage) on the plain of Z â¦ ama in 202 BCE. Carthage surrendered and this ended the Second Punic War.