AI: Julius Caesar 🦅⚔️, Pompey the Great ⚓🛡️, Mark Antony 🍷🔥, Cato the Younger 🛡️😤, Marcus Tullius Cicero 📜🗣️, Marcus Junius Brutus 🦉🗡️, and Cleopatra VII 👑🐍 Compared: Civil War Fall 50 BC to Spring 47 BC (Part I)
“Let the die be cast” — Julius Caesar
“Has it come to this? Even to my very tent?” — Pompey the Great (Pharsalus)
“We will not allow the rights of the tribunes to be trampled! If you wish to declare Caesar an enemy, you must first declare us enemies of the state!” — Mark Antony
“There is no need for negotiation. Let Caesar lay down his arms, return to Rome as a private citizen, and submit himself to the judgment of the laws—or let him be declared a public enemy.” — Cato the Younger
“The political situation gives me the greatest anxiety… What are we to do? Yield to Caesar? Where is our constitution then? … I know whom I must flee, but I do not know whom to follow.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The Republic is not saved by weeping in port or bleeding in the desert, but by ensuring the laws are administered, even under the shadow of a Dictator.” — Marcus Junius Brutus
“My sister commands the mob outside, but I command the man who commands the world. Rome and Egypt will soon be bound in blood.” — Cleopatra VII