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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[–] PugJesus 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Explanation: Brutus, the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, is, has been, and probably will always be a divisive figure. Even back in the Renaissance, the same argument was going on - great artists of the period often took different sides of the debate.

~~Brutus was optimate scum and deserved worse than he got~~