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Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy
The Daily Stoic
Plutarch's Last Words
Pompey's last words are something that quote from Sophocles about how when a free man goes to a tyrant's court, he leaves a slave. Pompey only sort of belatedly after losing a lifetime of gains in this single battle with Caesar realizes that this was all self-inflicted. And I think one of the great things to take away from Plutarch on this whole period is the danger of kind of enabling, enabling the tyrant on the rise up.
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