Status Updates From The Fall of the Roman Republic

Dude I’m crying 😭😭😭😭😭why is Cicero so mean

“ there was an occasion to when, in a quarrel with Cicero, Metellus Nepos asked him repeatedly “who is your father” ‘I can scarcely ask you the same question,’ Cicero replied ‘since your mother has made it rather a difficult one to answer.’

(nepos’ mother being a lady whose reputation for chastity was not high)

Caesar chapter completed. Maybe one of the greatest men ever to exist. Cicero next. The great orator who was useless in stalling the inevitable collapse of the republic.

So they killed Caesar.

Caesar unbelievably goated he is the Kanye of Rome

Caesar chapter

Pompey story so sad he’s actually one of my favorite people

Pompey is so goated

Pompey my old friend

Read Marius, Sulla, and now Crassus. So much blood and violence.

“Because of this he was simply not content to be first and greatest among many millions; simply from the fact that two men were judged superior to him, he concluded that he had nothing at all.”

crassus son dead

Trying to read this book for an hour today

“-and the prophet placed the entrails of the sacrificed animal in his hands, he let them fall on the ground. Seeing how very much alarmed everyone was at this, he smiled and said: “this is what comes of being old. But no weapon will fall from my hands.”