ITT: Based Roman badasses

>>2870899
What immpreses me the most is how (absolutely) powerful the Roman Republic was that had the power to interfere in the diplomacy of two other major powers of their time.

>>2870899
Stare in the eyes of a man who made the barbarians his bitch
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>>2871810
Forgot muh mosaic

>>2870899
Germanicus
Cinncinatus
Gracchus the elder
Scipio Africanus
Majorian

>>2871851
post stories, this thread starts promising.

t. history normie

>>2871810
>>2871818

Too bad he was a cuck.

>>2872100
t. Procopius

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Pic related was fucking mental.

>Becomes Emperor, manages to finally start pushing the Arabs back from Anatolia after decades of getting their shit kicked in
>Rules too harshly, is deposed and gets his nose cut off - at the time, mutilated individuals were considered ineligible for the throne
>Exiled to the Crimea
>Allies with the Khan of the Khazars
>Sails back to Thrace on a fishing boat, almost drowns in the middle of the Black Sea during a storm
>One of his companions begs Justinian to promise God he will be magnanimous and merciful when he retakes the throne, and God would spare them from drowning
>Justinian turns and says: "If I spare a single one of them, may God drown me here"
>Forms alliance with Bulgarians and travels to Constantinople
>Sneaks into Constantinople through a disused aqueduct, retakes the palace
>Publicly tortures and executes the guys who deposed him
>Becomes even more tyrannical, starts indiscriminately murdering people every day
>Army eventually gets sick of him and cuts his head off

>>2871909
I don't remember the specifics but I can give a to:dr for a couple of these characters.

Cincinnatus
>Former consul of Rome
>Probably did some cool stuff like kill an enemy general in a duel
>Retires to his farm on the countryside
Fast forward a decade or two
>Rome is at war with a coalition of rival tribes
>The Romans get btfo
>The panics and go to a older and retire Cincinnatus to lead them
>He casually agrees and defeats the enemies threatening Rome
>Has the opportunity to become a new king of Rome and gain all the power
>Declines and just retires back to his farm
He's an example of humility and duty. The Founding fathers of America like George Washington constantly fanboyed over him to the point where we have a city named after him.

>>2872141

I truly hope it was just slander on his part.

Aulus Cornelius Cossus

>be roman general
>find enemy general on battlefield
>knock him the fuck off his horse
>jump off your horse, stab the dude a bunch of times
>cut his head off, shove it on a spear and run towards the enemy with it
>bitch-ass Veientes run away

Hard
Fucking
Core

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>And already the Vandals too were at hand ramming and sinking the ships, and making booty of such of the soldiers as attempted to escape, and of their arms as well. But there
were also some of the Romans who proved themselves brave men in this struggle, and most of all Joannes, who was a general under Basiliscus and who had no share whatever in his treason. For a great throng having surrounded his ship, he stood on the deck, and turning from side to side kept killing very great numbers of the enemy from there, and when he
perceived that the ship was being captured, he leaped with his whole equipment of arms from the deck into the sea. And though Genson, the son of Gaiseric, entreated him earnestly not to do this, offering pledges and holding out promises of safety, he nevertheless threw himself into the sea, uttering this one word, that John would never come under the hands of dogs. So this war came to an end.

>>2872175
Was it autism?

>>2874139
youd be pissed too if you lost your nose

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Doesn't even need explaining

>>2875034
this

Also:
Justinian I and Majorian

>No Publius Decius Mus itt

SHAME

>He served with distinction in the First Samnite War under Marcus Valerius Corvus Arvina. In 343 BC, Corvus, leading his army through the mountain fastnesses of Samnium, became trapped in a valley by the Samnites. Decius, taking 1,600 men, seized a strong point through which the Samnites were obliged to pass, and held it against them until nightfall; breaking through their lines, he re-joined the main body of the army, which had gained the summit of the mountain and relative safety. The army then swept into the Samnites, gaining a complete victory and the spoils of the enemy camp.[1] For the rescue of the trapped army he was awarded the Grass Crown by both his own army and by the army he relieved.

part. 1

>>2876480
>In 340 he was raised to the consular rank as co-consul with Titus Manlius Torquatus, and the Romans allied themselves with their former enemies against the Latins in the Latin War. When during his consulate, an oracle announced that an army and the opposite army's general both would go to their deaths, Mus devoted himself and his foes to the Dii Manes and mother Earth to give his army the victory in the Battle of Vesuvius, in which he was slain and the enemy annihilated.

>According to Livy, as the army marched near Capua, it was given to the two consuls in mutual dreams that the army whose general pledged himself and his foemen's host to the Dii Manes and Earth, would be victorious. Upon confirmation from the haruspices the two divulged a plan to their senior officers and their army, that they may not lose heart, for they intended that whosoever's wing should falter first, should so pledge his life to the gods of the underworld and the Earth.

>Once the battle was engaged, the left wing began to falter and Decius Mus called upon the Pontifex Maximus, M. Valerius, to tell him the means by which to save the army. The pontifex prescribed the required ritual acts and a prayer (for which see devotio).[2] After performing the ritual, the fully armored Decius Mus plunged his horse into the enemy with such supernatural vigor and violence that the awe-struck Latins soon refused to engage him, eventually bringing him down with darts. Even then, the Latins avoided his body, leaving a large space around it; and so the left wing of the Romans, once faltering, now swept into this weakness in the enemy lines. Manlius, conducting the right wing, held fast, allowing the Latins to use up their reserves, before crushing the enemy host between the renewed left and Samnite foederati at their flank, leaving only a quarter of the enemy to flee.[3]

>>2875034
How about that one centurion of his that essentially was like, "WITNESS ME,” then proceeded to kick the asses of Pompey's men before taking a sword through the mouth

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>>2876486
>Manlius

Germanicus was great. He embarrassed the fuck out of Tiberius by seeking out German chiefs and beating them in single combat, being one of the final Roman generals to get the right to "spoila opima".

>>2876817
Details, please.

>>2877340
kek

>>2878710
It's suggested when he campaigned in Germania he fought one of the german kings/chief and defeated him in a single combat.