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#497 - Donald Robertson - The Stoicism Secrets Of Marcus Aurelius

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Having the Army on Your Side in the Roman Empire

How do you hang on to power in the roman empire? And you caund be assassinated. There could be a civil war. So you need, ideally, o want the army to love you and be on your side. Julius caesar had the army on his side. Why? That ther he wasn't an emperor. He was a precussor of the impulse bute. A marcs arelus didn't have theArmy on his side initially. But he seems to have really won the move or why? By the and lade seemed to have come to really revere him. These guys like nero and comodas seem to cano forget, why about actually running

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