Did Julius Caesar Have Stroke or Epilepsy?

Famous words from the Greek historian Plutarch have offered tantalizing clues to the causes of Julius Caesar‘s ill health prior to his assassination on the Ides of March 44 BC. But Plutarch was born long after Caesar’s death, and his writing in particular has been interpreted a number of ways over the past two millennia.  Caesar had migraine headaches. Or hypoglycemia. He had a tapeworm in his brain. Most commonly, he has been diagnosed with morbus comitialis, the Latin term for epilepsy.