The Dilemma of Augustus

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I think the dilemma was the empire because the decision... Because you get to the end and it's Lyceus as an old man writing. In his will, Augustus also appointed Tiberius as his successor. Our divine rulers have since then been successively evil, mad, foolish and now all three. So he's writing as Nero as getting ready to do his whole thing. Mm-hmm. He's a little fiddle and fiddle show. Oh yeah. And yeah, that's it. It was like...

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