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 was now the sole military and political power in Rome and had the senate declare Caesarâs governorship of Gaul terminated and, further, ordered him to return to Rome as a private citizen. This would mean Caesar could be prosecuted for his actions when he was consul.