Word: sulla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into the monarchy from which it had sprung...
...That is, by World War II. In 480 B.C. the Persians partially destroyed the Acropolis; in 86 B.C. Romans under Sulla plundered it; in the 17th Century, Acropolis temples were damaged by both Turks and Venetians. In 1801-1816, Lord Elgin carted off a large part of the Parthenon's remaining sculptures, sold them to the British Government for London's British Museum...
...When one wants to remember a dictator in the pure classical meaning of the term," spouted Dictator Mussolini, "one cites Sulla. Well, Sulla seems to us a modest amateur compared to Delano Roosevelt...