‘Let anyone who wants to save the country come with me!’ The senators roared and, as they were not allowed their swords in a Senate meeting, they tore their wooden benches apart and armed themselves with the planks of wood. Everything had gone awry. One senator ran to the Capitol to warn Tiberius that the Senate were armed and dangerous. People surrounded Tiberius to protect and remove him from the literal theatre of conflict as the mob of senators approached. It was not a long walk from the Temple of Fides to the top of the Capitoline and there weren’t many ways out. As the supporters of the
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