If it weren't for Brutus the conspirators would have gone to get Cicero and chances are Cicero would not have agreed and possibly sided with Caesar and blown their cover. ... When Cassius had tried to rally ideas about Antony and Cicero, Brutus shut him down, because Brutus's goal was to knock Caesar out of the box with minimal impact on everyday life. As he said, he was doing it for the good of Rome, so why would he start randomly slaughtering Romans that posed a small but plausible threat. ...

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Cassius thinks that Cicero is a good and honorable man that should be included, but as soon as he nominates Cicero to join the group, Brutus steps in and says, "O, name him not! ... Instead of contesting Brutus, Cassius just lets it pass and concedes to not permitting Cicero to join the group. ... This is a good idea and it should be used, but Brutus shows his precedence over Cassius by instantaneously replying, "Good reasons must by force give place by better -(4.3.233). ... Cassius, who has a good argument, does not even try to contest Brutus. ... His life was gentle and the elements So mixe...

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Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the demise of the Republic. ... Gracchus was a quaestor serving under Scipio Aemilianus in the Third Punic War, and supposedly realized the need for land reform while passing through Etruria and seeing that all of the land was worked by slaves, rather than Romans (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 8.7). ... It was after this that Gracchus, perceived as acting like some sort of tyrant by the Optimates, was murdered by a gang under their control (Plutarch, Life of Tiberius, 19.5). ...

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Accounts Livy, "Not without good reason did gods and men choose this spot as the site of a city, with its bracing hills, its [spacious] river by means of which the produce of inland countries may be brought down and inland supplies obtained; a sea near enough for all useful purposes, but not so near as to be exposed to danger from foreign fleets; a district in the very center of Italy, in a word, a position singularly adapted by a nature for the growth of a city." ... Romulus later said he regretted killing his brother, but life goes on. ... The previous king appointed someone, and that perso...

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