>Pompey's outstanding successes both on and off the battlefield

How do you pronounce Cicero?

>>3073683
Cicero was a huge ass kisser, don't take what he says at face value.

>>3073726
SIH-sur-oh I think

>>3073726
kick-eh-row

>>3073726
Kai-sar raw

>>3073726
Sis-a-row

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>>3073727

>At the age of 60, Cierco divorced his wife, Terentia, whom he'd been married to for 30 years. Cierco soon remarried to Publilia, a 15-year-old girl.

Why was this allowed?

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>>3073777
Romans didn't have polygamy back then.

>>3073726
Sis
É
Row

>>3073806
I wonder why

>>3073726
si-seh-roh

>>3073777
political marriage

>>3073733
>This is right
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>>3074044
>these are wrong
WHYYYYYYY IS GOD SO CRUEL

>>3073726
Chi-cher-row
is how Italians pronounce it

>>3074093
It's how I as a English speaker pronounce. I acknowledge that the ancient Romans pronounced stuff very differently then we imagine but our way is better.

>>3073777
The romans were redpilled.
Man x jailbait is the purest form of love outside the 2d realm.

>>3074711
Yeah, but we're dumb assess, that's reading it like it's an Italian word.
It's supposed to be all hard ks.

>>3073777
A quick rundown:
>Cicero married his first wife, Terentia, to get funds for his politcal carreer.
>It was customary in roman society that the family of the bride gifts a dowry to the soon to be married couple.
>In the event of a divorce, the dowry had to be paid in full back to the bride.
>In Cicero's case, his wife divorced him because the old retard had quite simply outstayed his welcome. After quite the tumoltous years where Cicero was banished, sucked up to Caesar, sabotaged the triumvirate and then again was reprimanded for his bahviour, his wife Terentia bore the brunt of the patricians dislike for her equestrian husband.
>In short, Cicero's behaviour, caused the other patrician women to scorn Terentia.
>So they divorced.
>Cicero now short on cash needed another marriage to pay for his previous marriage.
>In the end he divorced his new wife rather shortly because everyone was making fun of Cicero again and the money was not simply worth it.

So yes, it was allowed but made you the laughing stock of rome. Since Cicero was a vain, petty retard that craved adoration, you bet he did what the mob wanted.

>>3074938
>being a fucking Germanic hard tonguer caesar and others would have had accents

>>3074093
It's not wrong if you start a campaign to have it recognised as correct

Pompey gave into pressure. He had Caesar outnumbered and cornered, and the proper move was to sit still and let Caesar's army eat itself. Pompey knew that, but the tired Roman elite pushed for him to end things.

Pompey gave in, and ultimately lost to a clever trick by Caesar. His cavalry drove into Caesars, and pushed them back, only to be met with spearmen set against cavalry, who demolished them.

Pompey lost because he felt beholden to other men, and Caesar was beholden only to himself.

>>3075170
That was Pompey's second confrontation with Caesar at Pharsalus.
Before at Dyrrachium, Pompey could have whiped the floor with Caesar, yet he didn't.
The other Senators were not wrong for telling Pompey to step up and stop being a little bitch.
Hindsight is 20/20. Nobody expected Caesar to somehow win this battle with a big gamble. If Pompey had just done one little detail different, Caesar would have lost badly. It was down to luck and Pompey being a retard for letting Caesar get away in the first place.

>>3075200
Maybe so, but while Pompey failed to press his luck when he should have, he pressed his luck when he shouldn't have. Either way, I think he would have won by waiting out Caesar.

>>3073968
Inheritance / lineage.

>>3075053
t. Marc Antony

>>3073726
chit-CHEER-uh

He made a great showing of himself after Spartaflop revolt but he lost his touch and got usurped as champs of the plebs by Shizar

>>3073806

Everybody in that picture looks smug as fuck, including the negress in the background.