(Offered as an Intermission.)
It is strange to the point of being incomprehensible how the great Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus would abandon Rome to his enemy Julius Caesar, not daring to take Rome’s treasury along with him, on the assumption that Caesar wouldn’t dare to touch it either! Well, guess what? He did!
It is quite ironic how the great Caius Julius Caesar, unabashedly idolized by some of the mightiest pillars of subsequent generations as one of the greatest geniuses of the human race, has not been taken to task by them for his horrendous historical crime against humanity of having accidentally burned down the greatest library of the ancient world: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
...To the victor the spoils. Vae victis...
It is strange to the point of being incomprehensible how the great Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus would abandon Rome to his enemy Julius Caesar, not daring to take Rome’s treasury along with him, on the assumption that Caesar wouldn’t dare to touch it either! Well, guess what? He did!
It is quite ironic how the great Caius Julius Caesar, unabashedly idolized by some of the mightiest pillars of subsequent generations as one of the greatest geniuses of the human race, has not been taken to task by them for his horrendous historical crime against humanity of having accidentally burned down the greatest library of the ancient world: Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
...To the victor the spoils. Vae victis...
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