I wonder what Marcus Tullius Cicero would think of Trent Lott? or John McCain? or John Kerry? or Ted Kennedy?...
(or if any of them would amount to anything beyond a dung heap in his time)
It's unlikely that any leader of the Roman Republic ever imagined Teddy Kennedy or anybody like him. But, then again, the Roman Empire fostered some very strange behavior. Those later Romans would probably be very comfortable with Teddy Kennedy, Bobby Byrd, and Dick Durbin.