MMLXII Years Ago

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Gaius Julius Caesar was murdered prior to a meeting of the senate.

In a letter from May of 44 to Caius Cassius, the gutless Marcus Tullius Cicero states:

As things have gone so far, it would seem that we have been delivered, not from a tyranny, but from a tyrant. For though we have slain the tyrant, we still watch that tyrant's every nod. And not only that, but measures which he himself would not carry through were he alive, we approve, because we suppose that he contemplated them.

Cicero of course was not a member of the conspiracy.  He slew no one.  He did not raise his hand against Caesar.  In 43 BC, one of Mark Antony's retainers cut his head off.

Cicero's attitude about tyrants was largely formed 20 years earlier, during the Cataline 'conspiracy'.  His main issue with tyrants was that he never got to be one himself.


Boru