Cicero's Finest Hour (44 to 43 B.C.E.)

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@HistoriaCivilis 4 года назад

@primusinterpares5767 4 года назад

@cartmann94 4 года назад

Also an F to Tribune Aquila, who died at the Battle of Mutina.

@Lawaleeth 4 года назад

@kaseyfarnum7997 4 года назад

@AlexanderDiviFilius 4 года назад

@DarthMeteos 3 года назад

"Why are you crying so hard, kiddo?" "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, THE GREEN SQUARE IS GONE AND THE PURPLE SQUARE RESPECTED HIM"

@Omar-lq3ri 3 года назад

Underrated comment

@musichalloffame 3 года назад

The exact truth of this statement has shook me in to both a fit of uncontrollable laughing and the realization that I also have genuine feelings for colored squares! I can mourn for squares and laugh at the same time!

@JamesJJSMilton 3 года назад

@@musichalloffame its now weird thinking these squares used to be skin having people who fought for real issues.

@program4215 3 года назад

@@JamesJJSMilton "skin having people" omg

@francesconesi7666 3 года назад

Still, why are you crying? Green square was a lame republican.

@ElVindicto 4 года назад

"Cicero switched to a much more aggressive posture." What did he do? "He made a series of speeches and distributed a series of pamphlets that directly denounced Anthony." Oh snap, what else? "He sent a stern letter co-signed by the senate instructing him to stand down" Yeah, fuck him up, Cicero.

@lukaszkonsek7940 4 года назад

"The pen is mightier than the sword"

@88fibonaccisequence 4 года назад

World Star!

@MitchellD249 4 года назад

@@lukaszkonsek7940 Unfortunately, it's difficult to wield a pen when your enemy has cut both your hands off and nailed them to the Senate speaking platform. Swords are useful in that regard.

@louisswanepoel1614 4 года назад

"Stupid face = BAD"

@belland_dog8235 4 года назад

@gillecroisd 92 According to the definition of the word, it's very possible for the pen to be, in fact, mightier than the sword. Though like most things it's all circumstancial.

@randomcarbonaccumulation6478 2 года назад

Imagine you killed Gaius Julius Caesar and another one just arrives from Illyricum I'd be mad af

@saadselkent367 Год назад

Bro respawned

@Hugh_Morris Год назад

@@saadselkent367 lmao

@roger9430 Год назад

@@saadselkent367 Literally respawned lmao, and Caesar's death taught Octavian exactly what not to do, pardon your enemies.

@chrish4439 10 месяцев назад

@@roger9430Yet that's exactly what he did....

@tomlxyz 9 месяцев назад

First mad, then dead

@alexross1816 2 года назад

Octavian's mom: Return to Rome, but hide your identity!" Octavian's step-father: "Renounce the adoption, and keep your keep your head down!" Octavian: *"WHAT'S UP, BITCHES?! JULIUS CAESAR 2: OCTAVIAN BOOGALOO IS COMING TO ROME!!!"*

@garvett6660 Год назад

Octavian: *LEEEEEROOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEENKIIIIINS*

@Emil-Antonowsky Год назад

@Garvett Now, that's funny.

@masterexploder9668 Год назад

Ultimate Leeroy Jenkins, except it actually worked.

@dveillo36 Год назад

@@garvett6660 funny thing is my grandpa Leroy's mom was named Octavia

@wiritpollapcharoenporn3168 5 месяцев назад

Just like Ceasar wanted...

@Blake_Stone 4 года назад

The story of Cicero sure makes the guy a compelling character. Then again, it was written by Cicero.

@a2falcone 4 года назад

Showing that Cicero's method (the pen over the sword) payed off in the long term.

@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 4 года назад

Or almost paid off. In the end, he was let down by his allies, Brutus was practically useless.

@notepad9883 4 года назад

@@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 I think he's talking even longer term than that. Cic got himself killed a handful of years ahead of his time; but twenty centuries later one he is one of the most famous, studied, and admired men in history--and this has only become *more* true with the passage of time over this period. Twenty centuries from now, I wouldn't bet he won't be bigger than ever. He didn't exactly have the last laugh, because you can't laugh with a head that's detached from your body... But if you believe in posthumous "payoffs," if you believe that history's "immortality" counts for something, then yeah, his enemies came with their swords way too late to stop the ultimate victory of those hands and tongue. RIP Cicero. Long live Cicero.

@lordbiscuitthetossable5352 4 года назад

@@notepad9883 That is very true, but for Rome that time would never come again. This was the only chance that the Republic had at stopping the rise of Tyrants and when push came shove; his fellow senators completely failed him. The assassins despite acting on the effective behalf of the senate acted indecisively and thus effectively squandered their own goals of re-instating the senate as the primary authority, and later Cic's gains in putting Ceasers successors in putting them in an awkward position. He even complains about this many times. A true republic only works when the will of the senate is united, the United Kingdom is a prime example of what I consider to be a modern day Rome; indecisive, corrupt and steadily loaning out chunks of it's authority out to companies instead of it's generals. One day, it will be British in name only. Of course, he was an excellent politician and had managed to decisively set up a situation where both of Ceasers successor's could've been defeated. But Brutus chose not to move and doomed the republic. This is speaking high praises by the way; only Cic could engineer a situation where all it's Tryants could potentially be dispatched, yet believe in the republic so heavily as to bring that he did it all in the proper way. It's really inspiring in the way that he came so far despite having never commanded an single soldier in the entire civil war.

@douglasphillips5870 4 года назад

Ultimately his goal was to save the republic which he failed. He failed well, but he failed

@rexgrimes7562 4 года назад

"We're anti murder in this house" literally two minutes later... "if it's of any consolation, Brutus retaliated by killing Anthony's brother"" LMAO RIP

@jensjensen9035 4 года назад

rip who? Cicero or cockheads brother ?

@SnekNOTSnake 4 года назад

BTW how did you commented this a week earlier before the video even get uploaded, which is only 30 mins ago?

@SnekNOTSnake 4 года назад

@@archdukefranzferdinand567 Ahh, that explains everything. I thought it was another RU-vid's bug.

@resileaf9501 4 года назад

@@SnekNOTSnake Someone asks about it every single week XD

@jophielswings 4 года назад

To be fair like the entire world at this point is becoming very anti-rich very fast in 2020. And for frankly good reason.

@Sarjsh 2 года назад

Octavius: "From now on call me Gaius Julius Caesar" Historians, 2000 years later: "The artist formerly known as Octavius"

Год назад

Most people actually refer to him as Augustus 😂

@lolmasterjerkit1531 Год назад

Either way my man octavian, octavius, Augustus, giaus julius caesar* is rolling in his grave 💀💀

@leexcite2903 Год назад

Ceasar was just sooo too much of a chad for him to be mixed up by some brony

@joeynelson9761 3 года назад

* Somebody raises an army and marches on Rome * Romans in 88BC: Noooo, we're all gonna die! Unprecedented! Romans in 44BC: Is it that time of year already?

@sorcierenoire8651 2 года назад

Romans in the 3rd Century AD: wake me up when someone gets appointed as emperor again.

@Liveforgamingman 2 года назад

@@sorcierenoire8651 You're not gonna do much sleeping then.

@sheldon-cooper 2 года назад

@@Liveforgamingman * Correction * "Wake me up when there's only one emperor"

@HiHi-lh3ps 2 года назад

@@sheldon-cooper Diocletian: yeah, about that...

@therearenoshortcuts9868 2 года назад

as an American Consul once said: "we are always 1 generation away from losing all our freedoms" something unthinkably illegal in your teenage years can become normalized politically by the time you are 50-60

@JingleJangle256 4 года назад

So Brutus, Cassius, and Decimus murdered Caesar out of fear that he’d declare himself king and start killing members of the opposition, only to fuel the ambitions of younger men who were more keen to purge than Caesar ever was. Palpatine (in the shadows): Ironic.

@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser 4 года назад

"Caesar wants to be king" was PR on their part, they killed him because Caesar had started to reward plebs and retired soldiers with public land and forcing the rich landowner class to employ unemployed roman freeman instead of slaves (1/3 of the workforce at least if i remember right). The optimates killed Caesar to stop social reform and in doing so they ensured their own deaths. So yeah ironic, fuck them.

@ben76326 4 года назад

@@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser it was not just PR. Caesar monopolized power in Rome and got declared declared dictator for life. During that time here are some of the especially kingly things he had done. He passed legislation to have an ornate chair (some would say throne) set between the two consuls chairs. And he passed another law enabling him to ware a purple toga (which was the dress of the old kings of Rome). No legislation behind this one, but Caesar had a bust of himself placed in Temple that housed busts of the original kings of Rome. With all of that I don't think it's unfair to say Caesar wanted to be King. Even if he was also passing reforms to help the common people.

@gaminbros316 4 года назад

@@ben76326 man ceasar is almost like President Marcos in the Phil. They both resorted to dictatorial powers thinking thier country would be better with them ruling

@Pyxis10 4 года назад

@@ben76326 How dare you!? That was just a special golden chair made for the guy who dressed like a king and acted like a king, but definitely wasn't one!

@requited2568 4 года назад

@@ben76326 Wonder why he wanted to be king? Probably nothing to do with the low life senators who liked assassinating people and would betray their friends.

@aetu35 4 года назад

Goodbye, Cicero. We will remember that green square.

@resileaf9501 4 года назад

A square of principles who tried his best, every day, until his assassination.

@johnyoutuber9781 4 года назад

The worst thing about this is that with him gone, the number of remaining originators has reduced to just one: Antony. Of all the characters that were with us from the beginning, and did not come to be LATER down the road, Antony is the ONLY one left, and he's not got long to go...

@vectrom21 4 года назад

too many deaths! First the red square, now the green, soon we will be out of colors... tragic!

@nooneinparticular3370 4 года назад

RIP in pepperoni. Never forghetti.

@thesunking7365 4 года назад

I like Cicero but I also hate him for being part of Ceasar's assassination

@burpbot7555 3 года назад

"Brutus was... Indecisive" Story of his fucking life. "Whether he meant it or not, he had just stabbed his ally in the back" This one is even more fitting.

@randomcenturion7264 2 года назад

Brutus is so useless.

@parkerflorence5332 2 года назад

Stabbed him in the groin actually

@danceymetal5484 Год назад

@@parkerflorence5332 much like everything else he did, a superficial and loud action, that in the end made little effect.

@florians9949 Год назад

@@randomcenturion7264 The most impact he had was by leading Ceasar’s assassination, which he was beought in last minute.

@tatuloa Год назад

For Brutus , when a senator is banging your mom for a long time and wonder if he is your Papa ...it was a toxic mix ..

@cageybee7221 3 года назад

cicero has essentially taken over rome on like 4 seperate occasions trying to restore order. what a madlad.

@tylerdurden3722 3 года назад

Cicero wanted to restore things to a state of pre Ceasar. Cicero had no plan to fix Rome (perhaps he didn't even realize that Rome was broken). They say insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

@Captain-Jinn 3 года назад

@@tylerdurden3722 You're spot on. And pre-Caesar Rome is like a powder keg with a half-second left on its fuse. That's some Greek tragedy levels of irony for a man who cared so much about his Republic.

@racoon251 3 года назад

@@tylerdurden3722 cringe

@pozkodeth 3 года назад

@@racoon251 14 year old

@racoon251 3 года назад

@@pozkodeth cringe

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

Brutus: "Oh no, I'm not brave enough for politics" Cicero: "Hang on, this whole operation was *your* idea. "

@samc9516 4 года назад

In this analogy, does it work to make Octavian Emperor Palpatine? "In order to ensure the security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganised into the FIRST GALACTIC/ROMAN EMPIRE!" Edit: and therefore Caesar could be the legendary Darth Plagueis the wise himself! :o

@KarakNornClansman 4 года назад

@@samc9516 Palpatine is very much based on Octavianus. It's an obvious parallell. He's the senate.

@luciusvernus3174 4 года назад

Lmao

@forasago 4 года назад

@@samc9516 Palpatine is more like the original Caesar. Octavian followed Caesar's blueprint on how to run things whereas Palpatine was a pioneer, at least until Disney retcons it.

@iceintheair 4 года назад

@@KarakNornClansman you mean caesar

@spooneater9001 4 года назад

Also, after all this, I wonder if "et tu, brute?" wasn't caesar being surprised at Brutus' betrayal, but rather: "Holy shit, you decided to do something drastic for once, Brutus?"

@azarishere6442 4 года назад

Lmao

@JoseHernandez-bv5gr 4 года назад

Roasted

@bogdandamaschin9381 4 года назад

he did what his father told him: not to do anything without the permission of Tribune Aquila

@Heldarion 4 года назад

"Et tu, Brute?" is an invention by Shakespeare ...

@Dubanx 4 года назад

LOL. Funny, but "Et Tu Brutus" is a work of shakespear's telling of the story, and was not actually said.

@sohflipz4439 2 года назад

Brutus seems to always know how to seize failure from the jaws of victory.

@seabassdigiorno8212 8 месяцев назад

Oooh love that! Put that on his gravestone😂

@tiasara5967 7 месяцев назад

Finally, a historical figure l can relate to.

@spencermarks7644 4 месяца назад

He must've been a Republican

@herpyderpy2869 Год назад

When everyone wanted Caesar gone, Cicero wanted order When Caesar was in power, all Cicero cared about was stability When the Second Triumvirate was formed, Cicero wanted peace He's the rare kind of politician who's competent and still cares about the country's order

@florians9949 Год назад

And in return, he got murdered.

@keiththomas1180 Год назад

Damn

@nashzahm Год назад

When Cicero died, i believe the Republic died with him. He just wanted the Republic to be stable, and without him stability could never return. His position and popularity in Italy made him the last hope.

@snickims9717 11 месяцев назад

@@nashzahm But, although he truely seemed to love the republic, he had no ideas on how to deal with the many insititional problems that had lead to the rise of Caesar. I can not help but think that even if he had been succesful, he would have failed, for the republic was simply too far down the road of collapse for anyone to save it.

@Tarnatos14 11 месяцев назад

@@snickims9717 Actually he had an Idear, he wanted to strenghen the senat, more as it was normaly before that. If thats a good idear is another debate, but he actually had an idear. We know (or at least I do, there are maybe more) two ancient 'concepts' how to safe the republik. The one is form Polybios: his idear follows the existing technic of the republik, the chec and balances of: senat, People, magistrates, and the tribuni of the people as the thing between all that. Ciceros idear, as he identifed the strenghen magistrates and pro-magistrates (as Marius, Sulla and Pmpeius where) as the problem (and technically he was right about that, as we see the centralising of the power in the hand of the 'first-high-magistrate' the piricipatus/Caeasr/Emperor later), was to strenghen the senat (In his eyes the core of the republic, and I think it was) and weaken the magistrates, letting so the 'parlamentry' system of this group of aristoctrats defend the republik both against people 'mass' agitation/following and the to powerfull ambitions of singular people. Source: Dreyer, Boris: Die Innenpolitik der römischen Republik, 264.- 133. v. Chr., 2006, Darmstadt, S. 15.

@Janny890 4 года назад

"When in doubt march on Rome" -Caesar Family motto

@robertjarman3703 4 года назад

Don't forget, Marius was Caesar's uncle.

@Jdp-rl6zy 4 года назад

😂

@readsomebooks666 4 года назад

It was usually a good plan for them.

@panzerofthelake506 4 года назад

@@robertjarman3703 he made caesar then. Oh my god.

@neuxell 4 года назад

grab it by the head

@tisFrancesfault 4 года назад

Imagine if Cicero had allies that were actually useful.

@toddharig8142 4 года назад

My team every game.

@alessandronavone6731 4 года назад

Honestly, all except Brutus did pretty much their best. Decimus' and Cassius' resolve in taking control of their provinces in advance and their skill in raising armies and support in the provinces are remarkable. The odds were stacked against them from the start, with both the people and the veterans being with the Caesarians.

@papapok13 4 года назад

Cicero should have picked his allies better. I mean look at their conspircy to kill Caesar: from begining to end, it was a bumbling mess. It's a miracle it worked, yet it went down as one of the most consequential murder in history.

@jevinliu4658 4 года назад

Imagine Brutus actually did something

@Flyingclam 4 года назад

@@papapok13 cicero never knew about the plot to kill caeser

@harryheller4476 3 года назад

It’s really impressive that Cicero was able to form a powerful faction in the senate after ceasar packed it with his boys

@Sticktothemodels 3 года назад

Sheep will always look for a shepherd. Man lost it almost as quick as he got it

@LOL-zu1zr Год назад

Man was too based to be defeated by moron Anthony

@neilb143 6 месяцев назад

@@LOL-zu1zrstill lost his head lol. He fucked with the wrong people and tried to help the biggest back stabber in history

@kingeddiam2543 6 месяцев назад

@@neilb143octavian tried to save cicero, just antonys help was more important to him than ciceros life. Cicero was a noble man who believed in loyalty and trust, octavian and antony exploited that

@calistman222 3 года назад

(Invents time machine) (Meets Cicero in real life) "Huh, you looked a lot different in the documentary"

@tomlxyz 2 года назад

"less green and square"

@tap1148 2 года назад

@@tomlxyz fake news!!!!!! Big history might claim Cicero was a "human being" but the truth is he was floating green square

@ner0833 Год назад

@@tomlxyz wait...they aren't squares!?

@stefanodegioia1598 Год назад

Plot twist, they are all actually squares

@polygonalfortress Год назад

they're actually circles

@Masterblader158 4 года назад

Everyone: *Playing 4D chess against each other* Octavian: *Playing 5D chess to prepare for the future* Brutus: "LMAO I'm just gonna sit here"

@bsantini3616 4 года назад

Brutus just staring

@IDontWantThisStupidHandle 4 года назад

I mean, it seems to have worked out in the end for him, no? He got to control half the Eastern half of the empire AND keep his head, as well as his hands, attached to his body. Sounds like a win-win to me.

@aleksanderlenartowicz5659 4 года назад

@@IDontWantThisStupidHandle Brutus is the worst lesson to children in history. Remember, children, if you are a traitor, murder, abandon and backstab your friends hard enough, you MIGHT become a rich, powerful man with a quarter of the civilised world as your dominion.

@ArtfulDodger566 4 года назад

You guys knows brutus was eventually killed in the civil war by octavian right?

@D3D3D 4 года назад

Butus : Breathing is fun.

@dr.pepperyoutube.trustmeit843 4 года назад

"it was starting to look like a 5 sided civil war" Kaiserreich: Write that down, write that down!

@gardenpop 4 года назад

I don't think anyone understood the reference but I did

@anonymouscommenter7578 4 года назад

I also did!

@BubbleBrawler 4 года назад

waynetraub3 I think the hoi4 mod is based on a book or something, may be it

@respublica4373 4 года назад

@@BubbleBrawler Tee 'Hoi4 mod' is based on a Hoi2 mod.

@haruharii 4 года назад

Holy shit is that a MOTHERFUCKING KAISERREICH REFERENCE?!?!

@angelortiz4815 Год назад

It's sad watching Cicero masterfully thread the political needle just to have Octavian come in with a hammer

@WereDictionary 2 года назад

"This battle happened on Decimus' birthday. Which is not important. But it _is_ funny." The sheer deadpan delivery of this line had me in stitches. Which is not important. But it _is_ funny.

@SomeDude518 7 месяцев назад

No go watch him talk about birthday boy in the video released after this. That is funny! 🥳💀

@jamestaylor3623 4 года назад

Antony: "I want a swap, I get everything, and you get nothing"

@legate6680 4 года назад

that IS the law of equivalent exchange... Maybe.

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

Quintus Jeffus Bezos

@TheHej2 4 года назад

But that wasn't a part of the deal.

@Bloodprince1234 4 года назад

@@TheHej2 He is altering the deal. Pray he doesn't alter it any further.

@joaquindirie1448 4 года назад

Art of the deal

@simen3971 4 года назад

Fun fact: Cicero invented a whole range of Latin words that still exist in recognizable form in Modern English: argumentum, conclusio, essentia, forma, intellectus, moralia, natura, propositio, ratio, species, possibly more. And he was a man of principles, unlike pretty much all his contemporaries. What a dude.

@themechanicalentry8353 4 года назад

@@sdsd2e2321 Petrarch*

@themechanicalentry8353 4 года назад

@Domantas It probably was less stupidity and more limited information, plus some bit of being too hopeful and truthful to his own ideals. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew it could've been his demise, but he preferred to go that way than to let Rome's system fail even further.

@itaieiron7275 4 года назад

He wasn't all good, but yeah. RIP

@thibautnarme6402 4 года назад

@Domantas I concur, he could have easily remained the consul-maker that he was and use his influence on young Octavian to limit (or rather delay) the slide toward cesarism.

@ryanross6973 4 года назад

Man of principles. Explains why he got fucked at almost every turn when things got hectic.

@andrewbresnan1449 2 года назад

We remember and mourn Antony + Cleopatra's deaths but we should really remember and mourn Labienus' and Cicero's deaths

@hihi-nm3uy Год назад

God, Labeinus didn’t even get his moment in the sun in Unbiased History. The guy was literally an anime rival to the teeth, and perfect drama material.

@sidlukkassen9687 Год назад

Yes. A movie about the relationship between Caesar and Labienus would be a tremendous success.

@cjmcc5231 Год назад

Antony was an asshole- no mourning for me.

@chadsworthgigafuck 2 года назад

Imagine being recognized by face by a Roman checkpoint soldier in ancient times. You can't have worse luck than Decimus.

@mojeo522 4 года назад

"My child, this was a learned man and a lover of his country". That hit hard :(

@germanyballwork5301 4 года назад

:( indeed, I feel rome would have been far stronger had cicero, caesar, pompey and a lot of other people not been murdered in the civil wars of that time

@JoseHernandez-bv5gr 4 года назад

@@germanyballwork5301 It is true. Civil War do not benefit a state in anyway.

@frankwu4747 4 года назад

Who was that grandson?

@Arduu123 4 года назад

@@frankwu4747 Same question popped into my head instantly too. Seems like it is mentioned by Plutarch but i cant find, atleast online, who he's referring to. Maybe Claudius?

@JohnBehrens118 4 года назад

@@germanyballwork5301 Maybe. However Octavian's rule ushered in the Pax Romana and a century of relative peace. It wasn't until Marcus Aurelius started the trend of leaving the Emperor position to be inherited by incompetent progeny (*cough*Commodus*cough*) that the Crisis of the Third Century began and with it the slow decline of the Western Roman Empire.

@mikelius28 4 года назад

I love how Brutus thinks he is the "chosen one" to save the Republic and then does absolutely nothing. I wonder if the characters have been romanticized or were just out of touch with reality.

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 3 года назад

probably both

@noneinparticular2338 3 года назад

The word brute gives the game away about that Brute

@someopinion2846 3 года назад

An ancient BoJo

@kylemendoza8860 3 года назад

I think out of touch. He was probably in an echo chamber.

@SHDW-nf2ki 3 года назад

I think its a bit of being out of touch But not really in a bad way Keep in mind Romans were MAD superstitious so Brutus probably didn't just think he was the "Chosen one" Imagine your whole life is built on the legacy of someone who isn't you, and everyone around you outright takes it as fact that you will continue that legacy. But you have none of your ancestors training or knowledge and the situation is radically different than what he faced before you. I imagine Brutus was probably paralyzed with fear of messing up and ruining his family name, one of the most historically important names in all of Rome.

@AlexGreeneHypnotist 3 года назад

It's funny that the term "backstabbing" is synonymous with betrayal, and that it was popularised by the suposedly most famous literal backstab, that of Brutus to Julius Caesar - when in the prior episodes of this series, we learned that Brutus stuck his knife in Caesar's groin, a frontal attack.

@fhornmichaelmac 3 года назад

It would be a very different world if betrayal was referred to as "getting stabbed in the groin."

@serotonin.scavenger 2 года назад

Caesar was banging Servilia, Brutus' mum; I would think that stab to the groin was fitting lol

@tutituti4344 2 года назад

Can you imagine Rammstein singing SackStabu?

@tomlxyz 2 года назад

@@tutituti4344 that song isn't about back stabbing, the title is a made up word and is a desired thing in the song

@LordTelperion Год назад

I'd rather have this dagger in front of me THAN a frontal gonadetomy! XD

@TaeSunWoo 2 года назад

Cicero: “we must stop Marc Antony! He’ll become another Caesar!” Octavian/Augustus: (laughs in the distance)

@friendcomputer2293 2 года назад

Cicero: 'I'll ally myself with the man who literally named himself Caesar after the original one. What could possibly go wrong?'

@LOL-zu1zr Год назад

@@friendcomputer2293 “his a kid I can still change him”

@sidlukkassen9687 Год назад

There are letters predating the Philippicae in which Cicero recognizes that this will happen. But still goes by the course of allying with Octavian against M.A. probably because he went so all-in and personal in his speeches against M.A. that there was really no way back.

@rgm96x49 4 года назад

"No plan, no system, no method!" Jeez, Cicero, you didn't have to narrate my life up to now like that, man.

@resileaf9501 4 года назад

Well stop doing a Brutus of yourself and be a Ceasar instead!

@Vienna3080 4 года назад

I relate to Brutus the most: Incompetent and lazy

@b43xoit 4 года назад

US official response to the novel coronavirus of 2019: no plan, no system, no method.

@brianmessemer2973 3 года назад

It's funny - I thought that to be a particularly modern-sounding comment. What a brilliant man he truly must have been.

@karlhans6678 3 года назад

@@resileaf9501 if i become a Caesar then it wont end well for me...

@jgagnier 4 года назад

"Whether he knew it or not, Brutus had stabbed Decimus in the back." You're not really helping his stabby reputation here buddy.

@angelovargas938 2 года назад

Jesus Christ man, your telling made me so attached to a green square that I genuinely felt bad when he died. HBO is sleeping on this, they should remake Rome with your telling as a baseline, this is incredible

@ghfudrs93uuu Год назад

Rome is gone, man. We can only hope they won't repeat history and exchange something of the same caliber for a dragon show, but we know they will

@InDadequate Год назад

you're right, an HBPO sequel to later years after Julius would be fantastic to see

@zumis1011 9 месяцев назад

@@InDadequate It already exists, it's a great show

@rocinante4609 2 года назад

I would argue that Cicero's finest hour was when he suppressed the Catiline conspiracy during his consulship and then had Roman citizens killed without a trial. After Caesar's death Cicero got outmanoeuvred by a young Octavius. Although he managed to corner Antonius he got lulled into a false sense of security by a tame Senate. He mistook the wolf for a sheep in Octavius. Cicero belonged to an earlier era of Roman history when people respected the rule of law and Roman armies didn't decide the ruler.

@TheAdmirableAdmiral 2 года назад

Cicero would probably argue that was his finest hour too. Though I don't discount this event either. If Cicero had just retired after cesar's death Antony probably would have won the brief followup civil war.

@shadanahmad6843 Год назад

👆 This guy gets it.

@createrz8433 8 месяцев назад

That's why it was *his* year

@maxstr 4 года назад

I started watching this on my TV, and to my surprise my 6 year old daughter sat down and started watching with me. This girl has a 10 second attention span, but she ended up watching the entire thing! She was even asking me questions like what an empire is, and if the "envelopes" are armies. Thank you for this video and making an awesome father-daughter experience for me

@JamesJJSMilton 3 года назад

@Loonytoones85 no no put her in govt. schools so she can learn 10 seconds of the byzantine empire.

@macfly6237 3 года назад

Soylent green is people!!

@Jessie_Helms 3 года назад

Congrats man! I was around her age myself when I started being fascinated by history. Here’s my suggestion as a 21 year old life long lover of history: use as many organic methods of teaching history as possible like (supervised until she’s old enough) historical YT videos (preferably from entertaining channels like this, Extra Credits, LindyBiege, etc...), find ways to make timelines feel natural rather than memorizing “x person did y thing on z date”, and introduce her to various periods (the Shaw’s of Persia are really neat, the unification of Germany, formation of China, and The Western Confederacy are great example they won’t teach much of in school). If you home school her, I’d look hard for interesting and well written history material. If she goes to a school you don’t control the material of, look for ways to help her learn about it organically and see the people as, well, people rather than info dumps. The time I hated history more than ever was in middle school with the same boring tone being used to teach me about the same events I’d already heard about every year. That’s, IMO, when most people develop an apathy or even hatred of history.

@EiriktheNordAndersen-ju4gl 3 года назад

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

@ImTheMariner 3 года назад

I bet shes even cuter than those squares, haha reading this comment made me happy, thank you for that. i really hope she keeps an interest in history, better than all the shenanigans of modern entertainment bullshit.

@D3D3D 4 года назад

Octavian: "I used the anti-Caesarian Faction to destroy the anti-Caesarian Faction"

@pokey796 4 года назад

After the anti-Caesarian faction tried to use the Caesarian faction to destroy the Caesarian faction

@jeffreyroot6300 4 года назад

pokey79 How Roman!

@oswald7597 4 года назад

Octavian will return in Rome: Endgame

@FourOf92000 4 года назад

"I used the squares to destroy the squares"

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад

was super efective

@BumblinIdiot 3 года назад

I legitimately started crying at the end of this. The world can always use more people like Cicero. Whenever people like this get torn from us we are all poorer for it.

@billrich9722 Год назад

Pretty sure those Centurion were richer for it.

@Beno27591 Год назад

u cryin over squares lol

@createrz8433 8 месяцев назад

At least Anthonys brother was killed as a result of this, and later on he himself was killed in an unwinnable war.

@creatrixZBD 7 месяцев назад

The assholes get ever richer

@neilb143 6 месяцев назад

Cicero deserved it fully as he was waging a war against people who rightfully were the heir of Caesar. And while his intentions were to not have another king like leader, he had no clue how to unite the empire, which Antony and Octavian successful did

@SiveenO Год назад

"No Plan, No System, No Method!" must be my favorite quote of the day.

@michaelsmart7445 4 года назад

"This was a learned man, and a lover of his country." Ow, my heart. :(

@josephclaessens8160 4 года назад

Almost brought a tear to my eye 😢

@kim2894 4 года назад

can definitely imagine old and aged Augustus laying it down if anybody within his earshot talked bad about Cicero

@christosvoskresye 4 года назад

That's what Caesar said.

@captainrackham2004 4 года назад

I got a lump in my throat when that scene happened lol. It seems like they had a lot of respect for each other, even if someone lost the game. it's amazing the drama the unfolds in these stories! it feels like we KNOW them! 🥺

@Hugh_Morris 4 года назад

Augustus knew the deal. It’s also worth noting that he pardoned Cicero’s son and allowed him to be the one that declared Marcus Antonius’ death as well as revoke his honours and ban the name Marcus within that family.

@TheJaviferrol 4 года назад

Decimus: "I was handpicked by Caesar!" Says one of the dudes who literally "hand picked" Caesar...

@itsMe_TheHerpes 4 года назад

instead of watching this nonsense video, you should ask yourself what do you do to support the black lives matter movement, and how do you fight against white supremacy ?

@Marshal_Rock 4 года назад

@@itsMe_TheHerpes Get lost

@williammoore6534 3 года назад

@@itsMe_TheHerpes why would i help an evil communist movement that wants to destroy America?

@METALFREAK03 3 года назад

@@itsMe_TheHerpes history truly repeats. stop making it about race. Then we will succeed.

@1112viggo 3 года назад

@@METALFREAK03 Funny i can´t think of any wars that was started because of race? Unless your one of those people who think the main reason the Nazis invaded the world was to kill Jews and the American civil war was fought to free slaves, then maybe there is a few. But still the overwhelming reason we wage war on each other on this planet is wealth and territory. The rest are just petty and transparent excuses to try and justify the bloodshed, usually after the fact.

@AlexGreeneHypnotist 3 года назад

So in effect, when Antony was refusing to hand over Caesar's money to Octavian, Octavian started up the first crowdfunding campaign in history just to rub it in Antony's face. And it worked!

@serotonin.scavenger 2 года назад

"Crowdfunding," as you put it, was more common than you would think. Another example was Caesar, Octavian's adoptive _tata_ , raising his 50-talent ransom from the city of Rhodes, when he was captured by pirates.

@csxfan_ 3 года назад

It's so infuriating watching Brutus do nothing time and time again. Octavian understood being in and near Rome gave him both better information and the ability to exert influence. Brutus just didn't understand this at like any point.

@Deboniako 11 месяцев назад

It's just as remote work

@markalanajon3295 10 месяцев назад

He deadass didn't move until he died when he killed ceasar

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

I like how you made Octavian *purple* because he was the first true Emperor

@EpaminondastheGreat 4 года назад

The ONE TRUE EMPEROR!

@Prich319 4 года назад

@@EpaminondastheGreat You are false!

@gabrieel1822 4 года назад

royal purple is the noblest shroud!

@MalcolmTown 4 года назад

We've now been in quarantine long enough for this man to upload twice.

@arawn1061 4 года назад

2020 what a year

@Jesse__H 4 года назад

🤦‍♂️

@rodrigodepierola 4 года назад

Cruel, True, but cruel.

@StFrancisEnjoyer 4 года назад

YEARS HAVE PASSED AND WE DIDN'T REALIZE

@JohnDoe-kv3cm 4 года назад

Fuck.... has it really been that long?

@reconnectingtryagain6986 3 года назад

Green square: shakes back and forth Me: You show him Cicero!

@RaixsOreh 2 года назад

as much as I love Julius Caesar and Augustus and the empire whose foundation they had laid, I feel so bad about Cicero. he was the Republic's last true Leader.

@justmesantana Год назад

Agreed, say what you will about Cicero. He was one of the greatest statesmen in history, and also, perhaps, the truest patriot Rome ever had.

@neilb143 6 месяцев назад

His intentions were good but I have no clue wtf he was trying to achieve by not giving power to Octavian and well....he paid the price for it

@RaixsOreh 6 месяцев назад

@@neilb143 it was more on brutus and cassius for not doing jack shit. Cicero did fail the republic but onpy becsuse brutus and cassius already put the final nail on the republic's coffin. Those two were as much warlords as caesar and pompey.

@neilb143 6 месяцев назад

@@RaixsOreh he relied on the wrong people for sure and I think did not expect Octavian to betray him. Shame he didn't side with Antony

@owenb8636 4 года назад

As an act of defiance, Decimus killed some Gauls. Is this just the way Romans vent their anger?

@BradyPostma 4 года назад

Yes. I'm going to say yes.

@BradyPostma 4 года назад

Also, hi fellow Brady!

@Axalon900 4 года назад

These Romans are crazy!

@MrCantStopTheRobot 4 года назад

"Any day is a good day for killing Gauls,-- but today it feels especially RIGHT! AND! PROPER!"

@namekman01 4 года назад

a roman stubs his toe on a table "THE GALL OF THE PERSON WHO PUT THIS IN MY WAY!!!" gears turn in his head "THE GAUL... I BET THE GAULS DID THIS! I WILL HAVE VENGENCE!"

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

Old woman: "What is your name?" Octavius: "...Gaius. Gaius Julius Caesar."

@MrBigCookieCrumble 4 года назад

With a liscence to end the Republic..

@deponensvogel7261 4 года назад

@@MrBigCookieCrumble Wrong movie reference.

@jevinliu4658 4 года назад

Everyone: *suspects nothing*

@coolthefool1 4 года назад

Deponensvogel Loooool

@vortex_master 4 года назад

Nice Star War

@CalvinNoire Год назад

Cicero is a very honourable man, and the ending of this video with octavian's grandson made my heart pour, F.

@galactized7760 3 года назад

“Friendly neighborhood historian Tom Holland” Spider-Man, Spider-Man, all fed up with the Romans

@Patchaddictedpolymath 3 года назад

"My child, this was a learned man, and a lover of his country."

@thiagooliveira7935 3 года назад

"one that I got him killed"

@theleetworldbest 3 года назад

And yet, he allowed him to die. Octavianus is forever tainted in my eyes as the one allowing one of the greatest, if not THE greatest men, of his time to die

@acebalistic1358 3 года назад

@@theleetworldbest it was antony's fault, he was insistent, he was forcing octavian to allow it. what was octavian supposed to do, start another civil war within a civil war that would take at least tens of thousands more lives?

@friedkeenan 3 года назад

@@acebalistic1358 He (and everyone else) should have never allowed it to get to that point

@gandalfgrey91 3 года назад

If it’s any consolation, Brutus retaliated by killing Antony’s brother.

@Friedrich2DerGrosse 2 года назад

"No plans, no system, no methods!" By Cicero was the roman equivalent of "No bitches, no hoes" Cicero working with scraps man.

@greyfoxninja1239 Год назад

It’s funny how much those two phrases carry the same energy 😂

@Memelord1117 26 дней назад

"No bread (sestercii)", too.

@SC-tl3rh 3 месяца назад

Just watched this for the 50th time or something like that. This video was Historia Civilis’ finest hour. Hands down. Thank you for the wonderful content you make. Been a fan since your Alessia video. Keep up the good work!

@aurelian5234 4 года назад

“This battle happened on Decimus’s birthday, which is not important, but it is funny.” - Proceeds to die alone, away from his friends and family. Happy birthday bruh!!!

@pez4 3 года назад

20:15 Happy birthday!!

@ethanstaaf404 2 года назад

He died months after the battle

@Ikxi 2 года назад

@@ethanstaaf404 still, that was his last great experience really after that everything went downhill because all his men defected

@sushamaborkar6657 Год назад

Cassius died on his birthday

@bguy32 4 года назад

Never thought I'd cry over the death of man who lived over 2000 years ago but I did. Rest in Power to my main man Cicero 😔✊

@WorthlessWinner 4 года назад

Cicero had done his own mass killing of political enemies in his youth, so it is hard for me to feel too bad about his death

@filmicreviews3270 4 года назад

Well those enemies were planning on creating treason against Rome.

@Marshal_Rock 4 года назад

@@WorthlessWinner Well, to be fair he brought all that upon himself anyway

@caiawlodarski5339 4 года назад

@@WorthlessWinner It wasn't really a mass killing like the proscriptions, they weren't just anyone who opposed him, they were conspiring with Catiline to overthrow the government.

@johnyoutuber9781 4 года назад

I'm gonna make this worse for y'all by adding my own terrible realization, that, with the death of Cicero, Antony is the ONLY ONE of our beloved characters left that was with us the whole time. Everyone else who's currently still with us, over 3/4 of which also didn't make it in the end, came here MUCH later down the road. This is truly the end of an era :(

@jamesdunn3864 3 года назад

And let’s not forget that Fulvia, Antony's wife, vented her hatred of Cicero, who had argued so eloquently against her husband, by using her hair pins to pierce Cicero’s tongue before his head was exposed on the Rostra. They so did things differently in those days.

@cooldudep 3 года назад

Maybe Caesar saw something in young Octavian: Qualities, values and a sharp mind that would make him a fine man to finish what he started and set Rome on a glorious path to becoming an Empire, if he were to pass away early. It's no mistake that the insane amount of money given to Octavian was to remove any monetary barriers to carry out high level political manuevering and also to pocket the legions in his grasp. He probably saw the same ambitious mind within the young Octavian that fueled his drive to the peak of the Roman political world. Man Caesar was a genius through and through.

@talisikid1618 Год назад

Or just greedy, ambitious and ruthless.

@Mitaka.Kotsuka Год назад

@@talisikid1618 Qualities too, you need those if you want to make a glorious empire

@Morilore 4 года назад

It's hard to imagine anyone failing harder than the assassins of Julius Ceasar. They tried to prevent the restoration of the monarchy by killing Ceasar, but what happened instead was that Ceasar's name became a word that means "king" in all the lands ruled by Rome and beyond FOR THE NEXT TWO THOUSAND YEARS.

@TristanHayes 4 года назад

@Sheldon Robertson No, it's not, King is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for King, "Cyning" which in turn was derived from Germanic "kuningaz". What is derived from Caesar is the various variations of it being used as titles for monarchs such as "Kaiser", "Tsar", etc...

@wulfherecyning1282 4 года назад

@Sheldon Robertson "King" from "cyning", or transliterated to modern English, "kin -ing" meaning "(first) son of the kin", with "kin" (cyn) in its broad sense of a tribe (the origin of "kith and kin"). Essentially, a king is "first among equals" in the Anglo Saxon/Early Germanic world. This is unrelated to Caesar.

@patrickwang671 4 года назад

@@wulfherecyning1282 So basically King means Princeps... niceee

@Gentleman...Driver 4 года назад

@@patrickwang671 Princeps means leader. More like Primus. Primus inter pares was the designation for first among equals. ;)

@AudieHolland 4 года назад

*patrick wang* That's what I thought! *@@Gentleman...Driver* Dang, that's even truer.

@jevinliu4658 4 года назад

Antony: Decimus, hand over everything and let it be called a swap Decimus: No Antony: *Surprised pikachu face*

@sarasamaletdin4574 4 года назад

I am glad Decimus is even mentioned since he is too often ignored.

@caiawlodarski5339 4 года назад

@@sarasamaletdin4574 Yeah, he is often confused and merged with his cousin, i blame Shakespeare

@felixhampe6480 2 года назад

I love Cicero as well! He almost single-handedly saved the Republic. Absolute Hero.

@VietTran-IAMV 5 месяцев назад

Cicero said that "to philosophize is nothing more than to prepare for death" (basically, to learn philosophy is to learn how to live in a way as preparation for our death to be meaningful and great) Man truly lived and died on his word. Respect

@novomute4281 4 года назад

I can't belive i felt emotional to a death of a little green square

@_fourtwoseven 4 года назад

First it was the little red one, now its the little green one

@cheydinal5401 4 года назад

@jpc1918 Brutus could have pretty easily saved him, right?

@hansnase364 4 года назад

Man. I miss Cicero.

@Jackal_007 4 года назад

Rip decimus. Used and manipulated.

@primusinterpares5767 4 года назад

"All this work, and all my money wasted!"

@TyranyFighterPatriot 4 года назад

Dad in the divorce courts...

@krissp8712 4 года назад

I'll buy that raven, let it be a sign of humility to you all!

@nuclearnadal4869 4 года назад

“I’ll never financially recover from this.”

@GalileoAV 4 года назад

Lmfao

@dannybeads3672 4 года назад

Hahaha too funny

@michaeltariga5285 Год назад

Can you imagine if Brutus's legions were in Italy when Octavius asked to be made Consul? Octavius wouldn't have the balls to just march his army into Rome like that after he got denied said consulship and would perhaps go into negotiations to share said consulship with someone.

@CERTAIND00M 3 года назад

I feel like every dislike on this video is from guys who didn't like how hard you made them cry with that last line.

@Captain_Carrot 4 года назад

"Whether he [Brutus] meant it or not, he had just stabbed Decimus in the back." At least not in the groin. Also, post-assassination Brutus definitely deserves the Bibulus award.

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 3 года назад

Octavian stabbed Cicero, Decimus, Brutus and Cassius in the back... welll... thats why he was there in first plaace... the irony

@Lius525 3 года назад

Brutus was like that "this is fine" meme the entire time 😂

@acebalistic1358 3 года назад

eu tu, bru- AH WHY THE BALLS

@falistor8969 3 года назад

@@acebalistic1358 genius 😂😂😂

@Julio974 2 года назад

We need to make the Bibulus award a thing

@phrophetsamgames 4 года назад

“Hey let’s swap but put these conditions” Conditions: Literally make it so Antony gets everything and Decimus gets nothing. Senators: well no use causing a fuss over the swap

@bergonath8851 3 года назад

"I want everything." "Deal."

@eliparker7151 3 года назад

"Decimus I want to swap, but I have some conditions." "Okay let's hear them." "I want to bring my six legions with my to Cisalpine Gaul." "Mmmm, maybe. Anything else?" "Oh yeah, by swap I of course mean you giving me Cisalpine Gaul and me giving you nothing."

@PotatoSoup40 Год назад

Life tends to take unexpected turns, but I could never have foreseen crying profusely for the death of a green square. Hats off to HC!

@feliscatus5161 3 года назад

Cicero: "Sooooo how long are you just going to sit there for?" Brutus: "Yes."

@booketoiles1600 3 года назад

Literally didn't move until his death

@billrich9722 Год назад

Stupid fucking meme.

@Trancymind 8 месяцев назад

Brutus takes entitlement to a different level. Brutus: "I deserve this."

@direweeb 4 года назад

Octavian: "Everybody's expecting a coup, but nobody's expecting it right now. Make me dictator, losers." Antony: "He's invading Rome?! I'd better stop him!" Decimus: "Now I did murder that guy's dad for doing exactly this, but honestly I'm siding with Octavian on this one." Antony: "?????????????" Rome: "ANTONY! Why are you taking up arms?! I thought we were friends!" Antony: "???????????????????????????" Rome: "Kill Antony! Get him outta here! Save us, Octavian!" Octavian: "I did it. I drove off Antony, the foremost enemy of the Republic." Rome: "Thank you so much! My hero!" Octavian: "K I'm gonna kill you now." Rome: "HOW COULD THIS BE" Octavian: "I did it all for myself and my good friend Mark Antony." Antony: "????????????????????????????????????????????????????"

@erelghania355 4 года назад

NNNAAAAAAAAANNIIII??!!?!

@toddharig8142 4 года назад

Ceasar: Thats my boy!

@dovwallack4688 4 года назад

HBO had the right idea, it truly is a soap opera

@hyperion3145 4 года назад

Brutus: Wack

@marcorc5167 4 года назад

I don't know if Octavian was a genius or what the hell was going on in his head with these weird decisions.

@josephvitale137 Год назад

Sir, you have really gone above and beyond in honoring the name of Cicero... Im sure if he where alive today to see your videos on him, he would have felt the utmost in gratitude for them, as we feel.

@compier12 6 месяцев назад

Two years ago I watched your exposés nonstop. Then it stopped, where have you been? Was I kept away by youtube? Your way to show and tell is great. I still remember so much, and loved your Julius Caesar’s rise series.

@hyperion3145 4 года назад

When we went over this in Middle school, they never mentioned how confusing this was at the start. We went straight to the Liberators War and to Octavian's Civil War. How did anyone keep track of these alliances and betrayals is more astonishing than the actual battles.

@Justaguy5678 4 года назад

tf kinda middle school did you go to? We barely talked about Rome at even a surface level at mine. And I live in the US state with probably the best education system lmao.

@Justaguy5678 4 года назад

@Danny n I said the best as in within America. Shoosh.

@reinatr4848 4 года назад

@@Justaguy5678 Italy probably as they were talking about Rome.

@Justaguy5678 4 года назад

@@reinatr4848 that would be the only way I could understand. World history is packed with stuff, too much for you to focus that much on one state unless its in your own history.

@kelli2783 4 года назад

Harrison Loch British schools cover Ancient Rome and Greece on Classics classes. Some schools have Classics as a subject.

@Arcian 4 года назад

Liberatores after killing Caesar: Wow, I'm glad that's over with Octavius: Well, yes, but actually no

@gavinsmith9871 4 года назад

Octavian: Time for me to become the Tyrant you thought my father was, and take the power he let you keep.

@krissp8712 4 года назад

I'm Gaius Julius, and this is my favourite Pontifex in the capital

@charleslambert3368 4 года назад

We did it patrick, we saved the Republic!

@Imperium83 4 года назад

Defenders of the aristocracy and enemy of the people*

@jasonmartin4775 4 года назад

Hi! MY name is Gaius Julius and this is JACKASS

@AverageJoExplorations 24 дня назад

0:50 Slight Easter egg, the crimson square next to Octavian is Agrippa. He was actually with Octavian when he got the news that Caesar was dead. Great attention to detail!

@nikoslav 3 года назад

"Lepidus gave up his brother" Literally a certified frater momentum

@alanpennie8013 Год назад

Actually he didn't. He pretended to but then hid him until the proscriptions ended. He was a good brother after all.

@SD-mi2vc Год назад

@@alanpennie8013proof?

@IdiotNESS 7 месяцев назад

@@SD-mi2vcCassius Dio claims so, in book 47 of his history of Rome. "So Caesar saved the lives of as many as he could; and Lepidus allowed his brother Paulus to escape to Miletus and was not inexorable toward the others." (Cassius Dio 47.8.1)

@sheldon-cooper Месяц назад

@@SD-mi2vcI was there, it happened

@riccardoorlando2262 4 года назад

You love Cicero because you didn't spend 5 years in high school translating his damned convoluted Latin. Caesar wrote as he ate: simple and straightforward. I could translate the De Bello Gallico by sight. Cicero, on the other hand, means spending hours sweating with a dictionary just to translate one unending sentence with subordinates of subordinates, random word order, verbs used for their 14th meaning in the dictionary instead of the first... Yeah, it sounded nice, but it was bloody incomprehensible.

@alfiehaigh8412 4 года назад

Oh no, he was clever, what a crime

@honoratagold 4 года назад

Maybe it's that I was one of the weird Classics students who started with Greek and learned Latin later, so basically everything in Latin seemed less frustrating just because it... wasn't Greek, but I always really liked translating Cicero.

@alejandrojoserodriguezarre45 4 года назад

Caesar was a man of action, he didn't have to write this grandiose works of literature and legalese. Cicero was a pure statesman, he wasn't a general, and he also used to be a lawyer. His thing was writting so he put flair on it because that's what he did, he wanted to it make more beatiful.

@vaylonkenadell 4 года назад

The ideal, it seems to me, is to be both a man of action and of poetry.

@markog1999 4 года назад

In fairness Cicero's private letters were fine, and there's something special about reading hot gossip from 2000 years ago

@iamseamonkey6688 4 года назад

octavian: can I please be elected emergency consul even though there's actually nothing wrong with Rome's government at the moment? cicero: no. octavian: *C O W A B U N G A I T I S*

@weckar 3 года назад

Octavian: "Nothing wrong?" "Let me correct that."

@buckplug2423 3 года назад

Classic Roman diplomacy "You decline my ridiculous and over-the-top offer that will not benefit you in any way? How dare you!!!"

@washikaafrozi1469 3 года назад

“Anthony friggin’ stinks!” - Cicero, probably

@misterpayah7723 3 года назад

Truly a masterful orator, such elegance.

@lazyatthedisco 2 года назад

"Anthony is a drunken bum and a whore" Literally Cicero.

@camacdonnell1 2 года назад

I watched this video when you published it and probably 30 times since. Truly one of the best and most emotionally evocative historical videos on the internet.

@Caerere 4 года назад

There's more backstabbing here than on the Ides of March. I don't know if Tribune Aquila approves of that.

@Marshal_Rock 4 года назад

To be fair, they had it coming with Brutus being not so proactive when needed.

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

The Ides of march had a lot of crotch-stabbing

@JoseHernandez-bv5gr 4 года назад

@@TheSecondVersion featuring also shoulder-stabing, rib-stabing, leg-stabing and face-stabing.

@einhauchvontullru3187 4 года назад

sadly Tribune Aquila fell in the Battle of Mutina (the one were Anthony was driven our of Italy)

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад

@@einhauchvontullru3187 now i understand why nobody was consulting nobody about marching on Rome

@Krnballerzzz 4 года назад

32 minutes of bliss from all the coronavirus mess. Thank you Historia :3

@Geeza-rc9kz 4 года назад

Here here

@Ultrawup 4 года назад

2000 years from now, Historia Civilis will make a hologram series about the era 2016-2024, and coronavirus will surely be a part of that.

@dylancrooks6548 4 года назад

Always a good day when historia uploads

@reinatr4848 4 года назад

@AlexNOSAM he/she said "coronavirus mess"

@reinatr4848 4 года назад

@Micheal Prendergast Did you though?

@turinturambar1159 3 года назад

I absolutely love this channel. The way you portray these snippets of history are astonishingly entertaining, but it seems like you also genuinely quite enjoy these stories (not that I'd be surprised)

@jackcassidy7317 6 месяцев назад

I’m re-watching all of my liked videos starting from the beginning and I’m about halfway through. Your videos on the fall of the Roman Republic really got me interested in the history of the classical era and beyond. This is one of the first videos of yours I liked because it really made me feel for Cicero, a man who died over 2000 years ago and I knew very little about before watching your videos. Thank you for the history lessons.

@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human 4 года назад

Tom Holland is very much the friendly neighbourhood historian. He did a talk at my college once, he happily signed the 3 of his books I had back then, and after the talk ended stayed for over an hour just chatting to us. It was the end of our day, but the entire class stayed late too. Great guy.

@GreeneyedApe 4 года назад

Note to anyone reading this: It's referring to the historian Tom Holland, credited in the description in the video, not the actor. I was a bit confused at this comment for a minute.

@Udontkno7 4 года назад

Greeneye oh thank god

@TheRenegade... 4 года назад

@@GreeneyedApe "friendly neighborhood" tho

@phoenixinvictus9880 4 года назад

@@TheRenegade... pun completely intended

@GreeneyedApe 4 года назад

@@TheRenegade... Even more reason for my clarification.

@CosmiaNebula 4 года назад

Note on adoption: in Roman times, being an adopted-child was a great honor, much more than being a born-child. Being adopted nowadays is some kind of insult, but back then, being adopted means your virtues were high enough that someone would like to treat you close like a family member. As such, if Caesar had any biological child, they would have been eclipsed by Octavius the adopted son. (Bart D. Ehrman hypothesized that at one point in early Christianity, Jesus was hailed as the adopted son of God, because of this association of adoption with virtue.)

@villipend 4 года назад

Being adopted is not considered "some sort of insult" in western society. If anything it's the exact opposite! I've never in my entire life heard of adoption being considered an insult.

@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human 4 года назад

Sometimes kids might bully another kid about being adopted, but apart from dim-witted idiot children, I can't think of anyone else I've ever heard treat adoption like an insult

@sarasamaletdin4574 4 года назад

I would not say modern adoption is a some shame. Or that in Roman times it was hominid exactly. But that in Roman times adoption was seen as being exactly the same as biological child. When Claudius adopted Nero he became the heir over his own biological son Britannicus just because Nero was older. You would have expected in modern perspective that the biological child who was born to be an heir would not be replaced in succession just because an older child was adopted. But when adopted person, whether a child or adult, is exactly the same as biological one just the age matters. However people usually adopted relatives like Nero was Claudius’s great newphew (because Claudius married his own niece) the way Octavian was Caesar’s great-newphew. With Octavian however Caesar named him his heir in the will which isn’t he same as full adoption that could only happen while the parent was alive. So Octavian forced the Senate to consider this a full adoption so he would get Caesar’s clients and could call himself a son of a god (after Caesar was deified).

@reinatr4848 4 года назад

@@villipend people sometimes insult each other by calling them adopted. It's dumb but it happens.

@SomalianDuke 4 года назад

Thing is. Ceasar had a Son and Octavian had him killed..

@23dojo 2 года назад

Your artwork, narration, and music you choose is just so amazing, thank you for the awesome videos

@CeeCee962 2 года назад

The work you put in to help visualise this is amazing thank you 😊

@Vincent-S 4 года назад

I'd imagine Caesar's ghost would be pretty horrified at the proscription that Antony, Octavian and Lepidus was pulling off

@justinian-the-great 4 года назад

Nah, I don't believe so. Infact I think that he would've complemented them! The fact that Caesar never made a proscriptions is based on the fact that he actually never needed to do that. Why? Because all of his enemies already died in the civil war! Caesar was a man who was personally responsible for the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands or, much more likely, even millions of Gauls, Romans and people from many other nations! Would he really be horrified by the deaths of mere couple of thousands? I don't think so.

@The-Plaguefellow 4 года назад

Something tells me he would've been quite upset to learn about it, but eventually accept that it was probably necessary in the end.

@caiawlodarski5339 4 года назад

@jpc1918 The only people who deserve to be purged are tyrants.

@washizukanorico 4 года назад

Steva Stevanović Cesar was no humanist indeed, but my guess is that he wanted to put his name way up there (or even above) Alexander as a historical figure. He wanted to be remembered as the best of the romans for centuries to come. And as he experienced Sulla and his proscriptions he knew they would have grant him absolute power now, but would have diminished his image in the long run (as Sylla was hated by most). Remember he offered peace to Pompey before crossing the rubicon and he genuinely (I think) got upset when Ptolemy the 74th killed Pompey. Well that s how I see it at least. Do you believe Ceasar would have killed Pompey had he captured him? I see him giving Pompey some kind of honorary job with no military/legal power but who knows really ...

@justinian-the-great 4 года назад

@@washizukanorico Well, there you are right, Caesar was a man who very carefully thought about his public image. Although I think that, if he captured Pompey, he would have probably either kept him under the lock for the rest of his life (i.e. throw him in the dungeon) or force him to commit suicide and make up the story to the Senate and the people that he didn't have anything to do with his death. But, fortunately for Caesar, Egyptians already did an excellent job for him, riding him of every responsibility for the Pompey's fate and actually even giving him the he excuse to "weep" for his dead "friend". I mean, to think it thorough, would've Caesar really ever even started the civil war if he wasn't ready to kill Pompey at any given time? As for that peace/political compromise before Rubicon, I think that Caesar knew that it will be refused and that he proposed it just so he could claim that he was the one ready to negotiate, to make peace, while Pompey was the warmonger who refused any peace deal. There is no doubt that Caesar was a cunning manipulator and with such kind of people we must always look what benefit they might get out of their in-a-good-will proposals.

@sabotsscraps 4 года назад

Decimus: Why does everyone keep stabbing me in the back Everyone else: Because it’s easy, and it does a lot of damage

@nobelissimos8719 4 года назад

HAPPY SOULS

@ironriderslsm 3 года назад

Heheheheeheheegeheheeee

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 3 года назад

Because you help us to realize that we can do that

@herpydepth1204 3 года назад

Oh crap I almost forgot to rewatch that this month

@joshelguapo5563 3 года назад

😂😂😂 perfect. I love that video

@seannaesseannaes 3 года назад

You help give emotion to these events. Thank you.

@j0nnyism 3 года назад

Cicero is a really funny guy too. Read his defence speeches they’re great

@jy3n2 2 года назад

"This woman's husband - I mean brother, I don't know why I'm always making that mistake..."

@PRubin-rh4sr 2 года назад

Charismatic people tend to be humorous

@liam2745 2 года назад

@@jy3n2 what trial did this happen in?

@jy3n2 2 года назад

@@liam2745 Pro Caelio, or as I call it In Clodiam. Context: Caelius had been accused of several things, including conspiracy, murder, and attempting to poison Clodia Metellii. Clodia was quite possibly the most infamous woman in Rome, wearing scandal like a near-transparent gown. The rumors around her included murdering her husband (which gives the "Clytamnestra-for-a-quadrans" line from the same speech) and incest with her brother.

@niccolorichter1488 Год назад

@@jy3n2 ís that Clodius , Clodia ?

@YodasPapa 4 года назад

I almost just shed a tear because of all those Fs for Cicero. Something genuinely beautiful about people paying their respects over 2 thousand years ago for a man who consistently tried to act for the greater good, within the constraints of his time.

@sebastianschiltz6359 2 года назад

Truly beautiful, legends never die

@SerunaXI 2 года назад

I find it amusing that we genuinely use "F" as a sign of respect thanks to the memes, when it was originally a joke to mock the scene from a call of honorfield game that used "F" as a quick time prompt to "pay respect" What was mocked as silly became genuine due to the meme.

@ImOvervalued 8 месяцев назад

@@SerunaXI I fail to understand how it's perceived as respectful when talking about real people

@tiodichia5309 4 года назад

Historia Civilis: (29:20) “we’re anti murder in this house” Also Historia Civilis (32:25) “if its any consolation, Brutus retaliated by killing his brother”

@Mitaka.Kotsuka 4 года назад

Double standards

@VRC3118A 4 года назад

Still the best consolation I could get.

@ironriderslsm 3 года назад

Heeheeheeeheeehwheheee!

@rustyshackleford1508 3 года назад

Also Historia Civilis: *on the fence on whether it's justifiable to murder random people just for being rich* If you're going to eat the rich, make sure they're actual bad people first. (Most probably are but that's beside the point)

@Trepur349 3 года назад

is it bad that I agreed with both statements?

@GrantUsEyesenhower 2 месяца назад

It’s been even more trouble to get to sleep than usual lately. Things have been rough. I’ve ended up watching a lot of your content really late at night, and I usually don’t let the full outro play before moving on to the next one. Tonight I ended up on an awful train of dark, bleak, garbage thoughts and I was starting to completely zone out from my immediate surroundings. So I didn’t stop the outro this time and “if it’s any consolation, Brutus retaliated by killing Antony’s brother” caught me so far off guard that I almost fell out of my chair laughing and completely snapped out of my bullshit. So thank you for that, sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar.