I'm admittedly not a Rome specialist but "the grain dole destroyed the Republic" is a new one for me https://twitter.com/DouglasCarswell/status/1243156638586019841 …
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Right - and it feels unlikely in any case that Marius was the only possible agent who would have paved the way for a series of brutal strongmen, given the very real military inadequacies he was responding to.
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I've always felt that the real failure was that the Senate didn't act to pull the funding and settlement of soldiers directly under its purview, or to assign it to junior magistrates (e.g. Quaestors). Augustus, of course, does exactly this, regularizing the system and thus...
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