Republic Collapse Quotes

“victim of its own success”

Gwynn

“perfectly adequate for a city state but utterly incapable of ruling a massive empire”

Goldsworthy

“fear of the enemy kept the citizenry in their good qualities”

Sallust

“violent contrasts between rich and poor”

Dunstan

“city mob”

Dunstan

“first outbreak of civil strife”——- “resolved by some form of compromise” (Gracchi)

Plutarch

“professional army”

Goldsworthy

“paved the way for the later military dictatorships” (Marius)

Scullard

“orgy of bloodshed” (Marius)

Shotter

“violent methods” (Sulla)

Dunstan

“supreme power could be seized by force” (Sulla)

Goldsworthy

“the unthinkable had happened” (Sulla’s March)

Tom Holland

“three-headed monster”

Varro

“chaos and bloodshed”

Duncan

“Augustus’ power was won in civil war and maintained by force”

Goldsworthy

“violated tradition” (Gracchi)

Goldsworthy

“mixed constitution”

Polybius

“unprecedented string of consulships” (Marius)

Goldsworthy

“champion of the old order” (Sulla)

Duncan

“completely circumvented the cursus honorum” (Pompey)

Duncan

Extraordinary commands made a “mockery of the traditional rhythms of political life”

Tom Holland

“effective masters of Rome” (1sr triumvirate)

Tom Holland

“sole ruler of the Roman World” (Caesar)

Goldsworthy

“better off under Caesar”

Goldsworthy

“dynastic compact” “end of the Free State”

Symes

“legally constituted”

Dunstan

“vieled monarchy”

Goldsworthy

“from this time there was a genuine monarchy”

Cassius Dio