Rxke wrote:Okay I did some wekipedi-ing.
You guys actually celebrate Julius C's death ?
Why not? He deserved to be murdered.
He caused the deaths of countless countrymen and allies: he started a civil war.
He was a dictator: he illegally turned his army against his own capital and replaced a republic with a hereditary empire.
He dumped his first fiancée for career ends, then did not continue that career, and was a serial divorcer and adulterer thereafter.
Gaining political office through bribery, he was forever in debt, which he eventually ran away from and then re-wrote the debt laws.
He is a classic case why people in high office must not be immune from prosecution: when his consulship ended he had to run from his accusers of 'irregularities'.
He managed to turn Rome's German allies against Rome; they armed themselves in defence and he failed to stop them, thereby creating a terrible enemy to Rome.
He made a hash of invading Britain - which he did for no valid reason. His second attempt failed because of poor governership on his part in Gaul. So much for the great military hero and statesman. His solution to poor government was genocide, so adding war criminal to his record.
He invaded Rome rather than face the crimes he had committed against the state and chased the head of state across the Med to murder him.
He shagged the Pharoah's sister, murdered the Pharoah and put the sister in charge in Egypt, then continued to shag her while being married to someone else.
As dictator he did all the nasty things dictators do to line their own pockets, change the law in their favour, steal from the treasury, build edifices to themselves, rampant tax-raising, and public execution of those who complain.
He was an evil, selfish, scheming, lying, untrustworthy, callous, man who should have been dealt with at the age of 16 as originally intended.
Sadly, he understood how to use the cult of personality and so he is assumed to be some sort of hero. He was a shit.
I would not be surprised if he invented triple-ended, unbendable, non-lockable, unwieldy, confusing, cooling-system-blocking, inefficient,
ribbon cables, too.
) ... but "beware the Ides of March" is one of those little bits from Shakespeare that people tend to remember, along with the fact that the Ides of March fell on the 15.