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Cato, speaking to a group of senators on Catiline’s conspiracy: “Our prosperity supported your dereliction.” (From Sallust).pic.twitter.com/PtaWVc1OTO
Translator William Batstone notes that Cato was a fairly new senator at the time, so he's either exaggerating or Sallust has rewritten the speech with Cato's later career in mind.
“Do not believe that our ancestors made a small Republic great with military weapons.”pic.twitter.com/4SfNSua9iY
The Romans acquired their empire by going to war almost every year for 250 years straight, so actually, they did make it great that way.pic.twitter.com/wZ3PItckFe
the questions is whether weaponry is the source of military power, not whether power is the source of greatness
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