Posts Tagged ‘Roman senators’
By their fruit (or sled or mask or…) ye shall know them…
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As we whisper “Rosebud,” we might watch our backs, recalling that it was on this date– the Ides of March– in 44 BCE that Julius Caesar, who’d assumed power as Dictator of the Roman Republic, was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and a gang of other Roman senators.
Muccini’s depiction of the tyrannicide (source)
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