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abtl · 2 years ago

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So you don't know that Cicero made several speeches saying that as a young man Mark Anthony would wear his hair long, dress up in feminine clothing and whore himself out like a prostitute (Fun fact, Nero grew his hair out long to resemble him, because he was his grandfather). Even as he grew up he wore extremely short tunics to show off his perfectly shaved, muscular legs, which Cicero probably envied, because Cicero had varicose veins and would undergo cosmetic surgeries to have them removed. Those insults are probably why Mark Anthony had Cicero killed.

...The thing about Mark Anthony being a drunk are 100% true tho, he literally came into the Senate drunk multiple times, once even with puke all over his white toga.

You cannot make this shit up. Holy shit. Roman history is just absolutely insane.

#asks #ask #mutual ask #mutual asks #the-little-fox-in-the-box #thanks for the ask!#ancient rome #mark antony #marcus tullius cicero #cicero #my gods Ancient Roman history is just SO full of these quips and INSANE shit happening all the time #NO movie game or tv show could possibly replicate this #reality truly is madder than fiction #now I can't stop thinking about a drunk Mark Antony #walking into the Senate with his puke-stained toga #slurring the ENTIRE Lorem Ipsum copypasta

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