Who was right? Caesar>my enemies can be reformed and should live Augustus >my enemies cannot be reformed and should die
THE DOG STOPS BARKING WHEN IT HAS SOMETHING ON WHICH TO CHEW.
>>18281663based
>>18281663A hungry dog has no master
>>18281640if Ceasar would adopt augustus approach he would live and republics would be saved
>>18281640I’d sniff her butthole, but I probably wouldn’t feel good about myself after.
>>18281640Caesar got stabbed by his pardoned enemies. Augustus got poisoned by his wife. Claudius is based.
>>18281669His master is whoever feeds him.
>>18281674He would have ended up taking over and the republic dissolved into an empire with less blood spilling. Augustus for his part was a lucky and stupid maniac that would have killed caesar eventually to speed up his crowning.
>>18281640I'd take whiffs from her bunghole like from a water pipe and puff out smoke rings
>>18281640One of them died violently and the other died peacefully in his bed after four decades of rule.
>>18282154Despite both Cesar and August being both geniuses always felt Antony was the more Caesar-like figure personality-wise. He had his chaddish bravado and the womanized nature, but like less tha half of his political acume
Even Augustus did not go far enough in purging his enemies, he allowed far too much of the rot stay in place and his descendants paid the price for it.
>>18282228His family was a fucking joke. All the competent relatives dying and opening the succession to depressed rapists, sociopaths, lunatics, creeps, and Claudius.
>>18282228Not his fault all his preferred heirs died and Tiberius was too busy on his Epstein Island to actually try to rule
>>18282240>Not his fault all his preferred heirs diedIt's kind of his fault desu
>>18281640If Caesar had killed his enemies he would have lost the war, died sooner even if he won (half the people who killed him were his friends), and he would be remembered by history as a worthless tyrant if he was remembered at all.As was pointed out by Dio, Augustus only barely got out from underneath black mark caused by the relatively few murders he committed by out living them with half a century of genuine beneficence where Cicero's son and Pompey's grandson both became consuls.
>>18282242Sometimes you're Germanicus and you just get the Japanese cold and die
>>18281640Pretty demonstrably Augustus, since they had mostly the same enemies and he had far more success over a far longer period of time.Whether that's also true in general, eh.Probably yes, but too much of a pain in the ass to prove.
>>18282250>relatively few murdersLmao it was as wide a purge as any considering the demographics, and it left him in full control till his death which came from unrelated reasons.Black mark my ass, that's what kept him alive to begin with. And the same went for Sulla who did the same thing with the same results btw
>>18281640Caesar taught us a valuable lesson: always kill your enemies.
Both.Caesar was still consolidating power and Octavian did the same as Caesar in the beginning. In general it was a poor strategy to just kill everyone remotely related to the opposition. For example Agrippa's brother fought against Caesar and was captured, had he been executed Agrippa would have broken ties with Octavian who would lose this capable general.However after the war with Mark Antony Octavian was in a different position, he was the sole legitimate authority after a string of civil wars and revolts and Rome was tired of instability. Few were set on stirring rebellion and those that did were not seen as challenging a rival personality, rather Rome itself. Octavian thus became Augustus.
>>18281640Give me her name op
