Caesar: Life of a Colossus

by Adrian Goldsworthy

The family line perished with Nero in AD 68, but all later emperors still took the name of Caesar, even though there was no link by blood or adoption.

when Rome was freed of the fear of Carthage, and her rival in empire was out of her way, the path of virtue was abandoned for that of corruption, not gradually, but in headlong course. The older discipline was discarded to give place to the new. The state passed from vigilance to slumber, from the pursuit of arms to the pursuit of pleasure, from activity to idleness.’ – Velleius Paterculus, early first century AD

‘The Republic is nothing, merely a name without body or shape.’ – Julius Caesar.

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