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The Reich must need socks." "For what?" "For feet, Jutta (73).

I am saying rather that men did not behave as men are wont to do, in part because of the essential change in political bodies, where everyone senses that protection at all costs, rather than the good and bloody battle, is the rule of the day. As soon as someone says, "You want 200,000 people to die," the chance for a discussion is over, because the rejoinder, "You are speaking like a coward and an ass," is no longer possible.

Caesar remarked that Cicero had won greater laurels than those worn by a general in his Triumph, for it meant more to have extended the frontiers of Roman genius than of its empire.

and he had been discreetly invaluable in Illyricum.

the boy was given the signal honor of delivering a eulogy at her funeral.

It commanded an empire stretching from Spain (which it had inherited from the Carthaginians nearly a century before)

Caesarion was the murdered god's real, not adoptive, offspring;

the cautious Octavius felt that he was too inexperienced to carry off a bold action of this kind.

However, a coin of Antony's, issued at Tarentum, shows Antony's and Octavia's heads facing each other:

In 53 B.C., Crassus commanded an expedition against the Parthian empire

The remaining units of the republican army surrendered.

presently occupied by Cleopatra, who was busy packing her bags for a rapid exit to Egypt.

The focus for any trouble would be Agrippa Postumus, the last male representative of the Julian

Octavian was less generous with the remains:

they missed the opportunity not only to win a decisive victory but also to capture the triumvir.

it must sail away as soon as possible, even if doing so meant risking battle with Sextus.

Antony, who had spent the winter at Athens, agreed to return to Italy in the spring or early

This was a massive blow to Rome's pride that would demand revenge

The only eventuality Octavian wanted to avoid was Antony joining him in the war against Sextus.

Varus saw it, the army was there on a policing rather than a military mission.

Octavius was already married to a woman of whom history has recorded nothing except for her name, Ancharia.

He also made the technical point that the adoption was not yet official

and gave orders that "should anything happen to her" after his death she should not be buried in the Mausoleum.

Cicero—were relieved that peace and, above all, certainty had returned