Pompey 's assassination had deprived Caesar of his ultimate public relations moment — pardoning his most ardent rival . The Battle of Pharsalus ended the wars of the First Triumvirate . The Roman Civil War , however , was not ended . Pompey 's two sons , Gnaeus Pompeius and Sextus Pompey , and the Pompeian faction , led now by Metellus Scipio and Cato , survived and fought for their cause in the name of Pompey the Great . Caesar spent the next few years ' mopping up ' remnants of the senatorial faction . After seemingly vanquishing all his enemies and bringing peace to Rome , he was assassinated in 44 BC by friends , in a conspiracy organized by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus
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Assassination of Julius Caesar
Battle of Pharsalus