The Education of Julius Caesar: A Biography, a Reconstruction by Arthur David Kahn

Author:Arthur David Kahn [Kahn, Arthur David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General, History, Ancient, Rome
ISBN: 9780805240092
Google: 62RoAAAAMAAJ
Amazon: B00Z4E109C
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1986-07-14T22:00:00+00:00

Why does [Jupiter] shatter holy shrines of the gods and even his own illustrious habitations with the fatal thunderbolt, why smash fine-wrought images of the gods and rob his own statues of their grandeur with a violent stroke? And why does he generally attack high places, why do we see on the mountain tops so many traces of his fire? 16)

In a frenzy of frustration, Pompeius cried that Crassus was planning to assassinate him, and to Caesar he complained that a series of plots were being hatched against his life, that the tribune who published the Sibylline verses was in collusion with Crassus and that Clodius had been suborned by Crassus and by leading optimates. Hard pressed by a populace "practically estranged from him, with a nobility hostile, a Senate unfairly prejudiced and the youth of the country without principle," to defend himself he was compelled to "call up men from rural districts." No one, he moaned, remembered his exertions in filling the seas with grain ships so that the semaphores never ceased blinking signals of the arrival of cargo vessels at the port of Puteoli. He won no gratitude for risking his life to guarantee the food supply though everyone had heard how when a captain refused to sail into a violent storm at a time of a grain emergency, Pompeius had proclaimed, "To sail is necessary, to live is not." 17)

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