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 era that began when Augustus (then Octavian) defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra in the final war of the Roman Republic in 30 BC, and ended when the Roman Senate granted Augustus the title  Pater Patriae  in 2 BC.ollowing Julius Caesar's assassination, his adoptive son Octavian and former generals Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus united in 43 BC to defeat assassins of Caesar and to assume power over the Republic.