People thinking Caesar would be the fall of the Roman Republic. There had been many dictators in the century before him, the Gracchi and Sulla and Marius and Pompey and Crassus. Each time the Republic went right back to power when they were defeated or died. Why was Caesar so special? Because the elites, the senatorial families, decided he was and assassinated him. That was the true end of the Roman Republic. Sure Octavian called himself “First Citizen” but everyone knew the truth.
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