#proscriptions

[enlitment]

Head on the Rostra: a rejected idea for a Cicero fanfic title

[theantonian]

Why was Antony loved by Romans even after the proscriptions?

Cassius Dio, writing more than two and a half centuries after Antony's death, describes Antony as being the most ruthless of the three Triumvirs at the time of the proscriptions.

So does Velleius, but it was this historian's policy to show Augustus, in whose circle he moved, in the best light, and to malign Antony; and therefore his evidence is not to be accepted. He accused Antony, in any case, chiefly of having shut for ever Cicero's "divine lips"; but the Philippics were not divine they were devilish.

But Suetonius who was separated from the period by over a hundred year less than this, and is the better authority, is emphatic, as has already been said, that Octavian was the only one of the three who showed no wish to bring the massacre to an end. Antony, in fact, appears to have been the first to feel shame for his atrocious behaviour; and at any rate there can be no doubt that he alone retained his popularity with Rome's democracy, whereas Octavian was detested.

[duxfemina]

Not to forget Antony conveniently using Octavian's absence to just abscond with the monetary portion of his inheritance that Calpurnia ever so conveniently entrusted him with.

And my personal favorite post-Caesar stabbing moment...

Sextus Pompeius having the triumvirate to dinner on one of his ships and serving Marcus Antonius the roast basically about how "I'd have invited you to have dinner at my house but you currently live in it bitch"

Also one Sextus' commanders asking him if he can just sink the ship and rid them of all their irksome enemies in one go

i think that the time between caesar’s assassination and octavian naming himself princeps is objectively the funniest period of roman history. just nonstop drama.

[knightofleo]

The Frenzied Flame Merchant's Violin Song from Elden Ring

[marcusagrippa]

anyway agrippa on his knees in front of octavian after the proscriptions. maybe a little covered in blood as a treat. twink has his hand in his hair. et cetera.

[187o]

sulla : i've made a list

senate : like a to do list ?

sulla : no.

[catilinas]

in the archive stores. becoming the joker 👍

[catos-wound]

guys do you think sulla was feeling silly when he executed those 8000 prisoners from the colline gate

[thoodleoo]

first there was out of touch cicero and now theres out of touch antony

[caesxr]

cicero stoppppp i’m being serious girl STOP‼️can’t take you anywhere for real😭

[fauvester]

yadeks girl ❤️

[gaiusjuliuscaesar]

i think my toxic trait is the fact that i am actually am augustus fan first and foremost and the only reason i have this url is because nobody else did and i thought the opportunity was too good to pass up

[bedlamsbard]

guess who was up half the night coughing so badly her ribs hurt!

[marcusagrippa]

every time i remember this movie exists i take one hundred billion psychic damage

[rainbowpopeworld]

I definitely pronounce gif as gif and not gif

[catominor]

omg wait what If lfc got to profit from (sulla's) proscriptions a little. as a treat