Thread 18155975

Now that the dust has settled, who was in the right here?

Both were symptoms of a society that was beginning to mongrelize itself to death. Caesar wasn't a hero, but he at least moved things forward, albeit in a direction that didn't really fix anything in the end. His enemies were just vermin who defined "liberty" as the pursuit of wealth by their class.

>>18155975 (OP)

Morally speaking, the plotters had more noble goals (and good reason to fear Caesar, considering the amount of bloodshed that had precipitated his rise to power). Functionally speaking though, their actions only served to hasten the final dramatic downfall of the Republic.

Good intentions, bad results.

>>18155975 (OP)
The Opt*mates for sure
They were stuck in the decaying artificial world they created, and reed because Caesar did exactly what Sulla had done a generation earlier, his only mistake being only that he was too merciful and did not proscribe the bastards
like Sulla before him or Antony and Augustus after him

>>18155975 (OP)
I like Cato but if he had just learned to let go of his hate boner for Caesar for 5 minutes the crises could have been solved peacefully.

>>18156499
What good intentions?
they literally stabbed him in the back after he forgave them for their past crimes
He should have Sulla'd the spineless worms as they deserved

>>18155975 (OP)
How come that, amongst so many rebellions in the Roman Empire, none tred to depose the Emperor and restore the republic?

>>18156770
The Republic was very much dead even when it existed.