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The boundary Caesar crosses when he effectively declares war on Rome.
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The boundary Caesar crosses when he effectively declares war on Rome.
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The optimates decide to strip Caesar's command and prosecute him because his military celebrity makes him electorally unbeatable, while his illegal and immoral acts give the Senate a real case.
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"...does is, he basically declares war on Rome. He crosses the Rubicon. Okay? And the Senate is appalled by this, and"
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"...this. He wants to be the new Caesar who crushes the Rubicon and ends the Roman Republic, okay? And so what happens is Napoleon..."
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"...the death of the Republic. And that's not taboo. That's a rubicon he refused to cross. Okay? So we can imagine that Caesar saw..."
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Julius Caesar was not only a general or politician.
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