Hearing that Lincoln's son was alive in 1922 really puts into perspective how close we truly are still to that time.....history class always made it seem like so long ago.

"The Ides of March are come."

One of my favourite jokes in a history textbook was "Tarquin Superbus was driven out of Rome." 🤣

Regarding Caesar's Symptoms:

My sister was born on the ides of March. RIP Big Sis. I love & miss you

John Green: "Mispronouncing names is my thing"

If you look at the fates of the Roman Emperors, assassination of some form was the norm and not the exception. Very few of them died peacefully in their beds from natural causes. One was even tore apart by the mobs.

Et tu brute, (bru-tay) or “you too Brutus?” Heart broken he can’t believe even his friend Brutus is in on it.

Lisa : Beware the Ides of March

Also, many of the things the Senate claimed Cæsar which was illegal was also done by Pompey but with Senate approval. Pompey holding any positions actually was illegal since he never formally went through the Cursus Honorum.

“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”

Okay, I am dying here - the Roman general is Pompey (like "pompy") not Pompeii which was the city destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE.

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In this year, 2020, The Ides of March:

Changing "Ista quidem vis est!" to "Isntagram quidditch vis est!" (

Simon , this was most interesting. Thank you for all the work you put Tito creating this upload. Bravo!

If you guys like this sort of topic. I'll totally recommend Historia Civilis. Simon has a little bit of content on ancient Rome, but HC is the king of making all of that stuff supremely entertaining & informative, & he has a lot of it.

The bonus facts give me an idea for an alternate history novel: Robert Lincoln goes to the theater with his parents. He tries to stop Booth when the assassin enters. In the struggle, the single-shot pistol goes off and the bullet finds its mark...but in the head of Mary Lincoln instead of Abraham. President Lincoln now lives to deal with the difficulties of Reconstruction, without his wife who has died from a bullet meant for him fired by a Southern sympathizer. Robert Lincoln has to grapple with having saved his father only to inadvertently kill his mother in the process.

" Make me a salad!"-Julius Caesar.

You missed something. One Roman historian of the time wrote that Ceasar's last words were, "You too Brutus, my SON".