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This speech, made, as it was, in the eloquent and persuasive, and yet dignified and imposing manner for which Caesar's harangues to turbulent assemblies like these were so famed, produced a great effect.He child name meaning had a wife, named Calpurnia, to whom he had been married about ten years.He did not even confine himself to acting on the defensive.Caesar replied, urging her by all means child name meaning to come.Pothinus took pains to enlist her young husband, Ptolemy, on his side, as the quarrel advanced.In the mean time, while the civil war between Caesar and Pompey was raging, Ptolemy succeeded in maintaining his seat on the throne, by the aid of child name meaning the Roman soldiers whom Antony and Gabinius had left him, for about three years.She did not, herself, make any immediate attempt to hasten this period, but seems to have acquiesced, on the other hand, very quietly, for a time, in the arrangements which her father had made.The next day, Caesar, according to his promise, convened an assembly of the principal people of Alexandria and officers of state, and then brought out Ptolemy and Cleopatra, that he might child name meaning decide their cause.Pompey had been totally defeated.The child name meaning whole assembly seemed satisfied with this decision except Pothinus.