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MMLXII Years Ago
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MMLXII Years Ago
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:


Quote: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.
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RE: MMLXII Years Ago
Ah, yes - beware the Ides of March. I thought of it a few days ago and two co-workers mentioned it today.

History isn't my subject but this one stuck in my head and those of two associates.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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RE: MMLXII Years Ago
(March 16, 2017 at 12:19 am)Minimalist Wrote: 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:


Quote: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
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: MMLXII Years Ago
True, although Cicero did have some of the conspirators executed without trial which is a pretty tyranty thing to do.  Even the WLB hasn't done that.   Yet.
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