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Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator

Real Dictators

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Caesar's Consulship

On january first, 59 b c, caesar takes office as a consul of rome. Caesar is teemed with a favorite of cato's conservatives, a man named bibulus. Pretty soon he is riding rough shod over his supposed partner. He manipulates senatorial meetings, bands rivals from speaking. And just for good measure, his cronies dump a bucket of human excrement over biblus head.

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