Word: caesarism
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...What sort of speech did Caesar make before the Battle of Pharsalia? Did he beg us to remember our wives and children and the sacred temples of Rome and the glories of our past campaigns? By God, he didn...
...authority, and some of the most surprising apparent inventions have historical foundation." Some of them: the haunting to death of Germanicus at Antioch; Caligula's bridging of the Bay of Baiae; Tiberius' ingenious cruelty to a fisherman he suspected of trying to poison him; the song Julius Caesar's veterans sang at his French triumph...
Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...Twas called great Caesar's rubber stamp...
...probably is saying to himself: 'I am their leader, but they don't know it. I will study their moods, so that when the time is ripe I can catch their emotional fervor. Then they will ask me to be their dictator.' "Thrice did the mighty Caesar refuse the crown." Meantime newshawks got Braintrusters Taussig, Landis and Berle to deny knowing Dr. Wirt, got Braintruster Tugwell to admit that he had never even heard of him. Washington guessed that Dr. Wirt had talked to some of the brilliant and unknown youngsters who took themselves seriously and thereby...