Foreseeing violence throughout Rome, Antony even imagines Caesar’s spirit joining in the exhortations: “raging for revenge, with Ate by his side come hot from hell, shall in these confines with a Monarch’s voice cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war.”
I am so thankful that I live out here on the prairie in Kansas. We don’t treat each like that. I’m thinking Operation Castle Bravo.
I have a biography of Cicero. I need to read it again but that time has many parallels to today.
I’m dreading the first use of military force for political purposes….by either side. It seemed once that happened Rome rapidly left it’s Republican ideals.