"The Republic is dead", Cicero wrote to his friend Atticus nearly fifteen years before Caesar fell, mortally wounded by conspirators' daggers. One century. That is how long the Roman Republic continued in agony before succumbing to the onslaught of ambitious dictators and military leaders eager to wield their personal power. From 133 BC, when Tiberius Gracchus was assassinated after having betrayed the Republican institutions, until Mark Antony's...
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