Posted on 05/18/2021 5:41:25 AM PDT by LuciusDomitiusAutelian
On the next day, envoys from Alesia informed Caesar that Vercingetorix had convened the Gallic leaders so that they could decide how to proceed, whether they wished to execute or surrender him. Caesar demanded that they lay down their arms. The chieftains met him at the front of his camp, surrendered their weapons, and delivered Vercingetorix unto him. Having captured Alesia, Caesar gave one captive to each of his surviving soldiers as a reward.
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I think I’ll broach Caligula or Commodus tomorrow. Maybe a vanity. Maybe who was worse? I know vanity posts are discouraged here. But this is educational to those who didn’t get the education like me but didn’t learn by their own curiousity. There are very important lessons to be learned from Rome.
“I expect a Tiberius and a Caligula pretty soon.”
There has to be a Julius first. A very popular dictator to blow the lid off and break the expectation of republican government.
After him, we are condemned.
Of course we’ll all vote for him as he will make the trains run on time and clear the rioters from the streets.
Don’t take this the wrong way. I’m a DJT fan to the max. Even a better POTUS than Ronaldus Maximus Reagan by my estimate. But he fit all the elements of GJC minus the minus military victories. Gaius Julius Caeasar was a populist and had the support of the common man. And as you said, the Senate was corrupt and the bureaucratic machine run by the Patrician and Equestrian class was rotten to the bone. That is why his murderers (Cassius, Brutus, et. al.) skidaddled out of town with Pompeii and sent Cicero and Cato off to the winds (they were stout defenders of the Republic but the Republic had metastasized into a cancer by the time GJC came along). They were living in their own bubble. Really hard to do a one-to-one comparison with the Roman and American republics. I’m not trying to say you are wrong, just have a different take.
Trump 2024!!!!
“But he fit all the elements of GJC minus the minus military victories.”
I’m happy you said it first.
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