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To: SunkenCiv

Thank the Gods! :-)

I can’t really blame Hannibal for feeling the way he did, considering the screwing Carthage got in the settlement of the first Punic war and Rome’s subsequent behavior in Spain; that said, I’d still reinstitute the Roman Republic (before the Gracchi screwed everything up) if I could impose my will; it’s been entirely downhill since Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus.


61 posted on 04/06/2022 8:41:34 AM PDT by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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To: Republican in occupied CA
The Gracchi didn't screw up anything, they were murdered by those other non-elected senators who wanted to protect their status and wealth. Senators served at their own suffrance and convenience, until there was a full time chief executive, the Emperor.

62 posted on 04/06/2022 9:04:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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