The Politics of the Roman Empire

Gangs start off as personal political meetings. Then they get bigger and bigger and bigger, until you can send out a mess gens at any time of the day and everybody will bring a weapon. And it all comes to a kind of peak in 51 or 52, when they're trying to elect a consul. The two people who want to be consul are clodius and a guy called titus milo,. They have had a very personal dispute for a long time. When they have a gang fight, where they set each other's gangs on one another, then one or the other of them will then take the other to court  and try to prosecute them for using