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Repeating Optimate slander 🤢 (lemmy.nz)
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[-] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 8 months ago

Other than the Great Fire of Rome, most of the tragedies of Nero's reign were his own damn fault.

Caesar was neither the first dictator nor strongman of the Late Republic. You could just as easily cite Marius, Sulla, Cicero, or Pompey.

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