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ladies, ladies… “it was this tenderness, love of nature and a natural piety, rather than his belief in Rome’s majestic imperial mission that led many later to feel that Virgil was the most ‘Christian’ of the pagan poets.” from objective historian #1, h. h. scullard!

dear mr. scullard, how am i supposed to trust you when you refer to thucydides as objective

"Thus the authority of Augustus was re-established on two foundations: tribunicia potestas, which gave him civil authority in Rome itself, and proconsular imperium maius, which gave him control of the armies and provinces."

completely thrown by the use of the phrase “to throw up the sponge.” what

“[Sulla’s] epitaph recorded that no friend ever surpassed him in kindness, and no enemy in ill-doing.”

i read seven pages y’all… clap for me. but also for marius, RIP my boy marius

that “que” in spqr is doing some seriously heavy lifting

“The People, also were ready to use any stick with which to beat the Senate.”

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