Hirtius

Hirtius continues Caesar's Gallic War. He has added an eighth book to Caesar's De Bello Gallico and is probably the author of De Bello Alexandrino. As always, there were other players in the field, with Aulus Hirtius and Gaius Vibius Pansa among the most important.

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Paul Hirtius (born around 90 B.C., 21 April 43, with Mutina, Gallia Cispadana[now Modena, Italy]), Aulus Hirtius, who is a Latin military man and warrior. From about 54 B.C. Hirtius was serving under Julius Caesar in Gaul and was sent to negotiations with Caesar's rivals Pompejus in December 50. Then Hirtius ministered in Spain and the East and was pretor (46) and gubernator (45) of the transalpine Gaul.

Caesar and Gaius Vibius Pansa appointed him to the Consulate of 43 (44); and after the dictator's murder in March 44, he and Panza backed the senate against Mark Antony, with whom Hirtius had initially allied himself. They embarked on their journey to Mutina in 43, where Mark Antonius Decimus besieged Brutus, and caused him a serious loss in the Forum Gallorum.

After a few short get-togethers, they beat him again in the Mutina fight, but Hirtius was murdered in combat and Panza suffered injuries. The two men received a civil funeral on the Martius campus in Rome, where remains of Hirtius' grave were found. Hertie is almost certainly the writer of the sequel to Caesar's Commentaries, the Eight of the Gallic War, and probably also of the Alexandrian War.

Strange death of Panza and Hirtius - Res Publica