The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained
The Ancients
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The Romans Loved to Have Bad Omens
The omens that elisted are completely different in every source, which i quite enjoy. There's overlap whatsoever, which suggeststhet re just completely made up. Suetonius is earliest one to have one of proper omens. And it has a bird called the king bird flying into the theatre of pompey, chased by other birds, while carrying a laurel leaf in his beak. And then the other birds kill him on the statue ofpompey,. Which is acasothe one that comes up most often is that they have lots of dreams. The romans loved to have terrible omens procede infamous moments in their history.
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