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Caesar was a serial seducer of married women.

Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.

Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]

Caesar declared that an orator should 'avoid an unusual word as the helmsman of a ship avoided a reef'.

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

The tribune was betrayed by one of his own slaves and killed.

(Sulla gave the slave his freedom and then had the man thrown to his death

By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.

Roman women kept their name throughout their lives, and did not change it on marriage.

Napoleon was later to comment that it was better to have one bad commander than two good ones with shared authority.

As Cicero would later declare, 'For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by a sense of history?"3