The Roman Republic
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The Roman Republic - A History of the Roman Empire
At least 70 people knew about the conspiracy, wasn't exactly a senatorial secret. The real problem is, like so many such assassinations, there's no plan for what happens next. They seem to have just assumed that if you kill caesar, you go back to the old republic. But the old republic hasn't existed now since gaius mariu's time,. 60 years before, the senate has no army. Despite centuries of war, the roman republic falls in the end, not to external invasion. Agreed, its carefully built institutions stood for more than half a mememiam. Were it not for that insatiable hunger for gloria dignities, maybe would
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