For every person who adored him, there was another who despised him, who loathed his populism and his constant banging on about being descended from Venus. The optimates hated and feared his relentless desire for change and glory, and were terrified of his disregard for things like convention, propriety and the law. Because Caesar was astoundingly corrupt. He bribed his way into his first official job and didn’t stop from that point on. Always remember that he took his troops across the Rubicon not to save Rome, but because he had refused to give up his job as governor of Gaul as it protected
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