The Making of a Caesar | Guest: Furius Pertinax | 5/3/23
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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The Relationship Between Loyalty and Volunteerism
The lower a man's class, the more dependent he becomes on his general. The success or failure of that general determines the fate of those soldiers and it could be just a humble, you know, an entrant man who might not even be middle class. And this is also where it's sort of important too, that you have this sort of break or this sort of genesis of the optimatism and the popularist. Sulla was initially a subordinate of Mares, and then Mares has success against the Kimber,. He's voted consul, like I think eight or 10 times, like it's actually not an unprecedented degree to which he's voting consul. Meanwhile, Cornelius
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