Tyrants today don't have the common sense (not needed) like those of yore like Julius Caesar & Brutus for example, who paid the legions with silver denarii to retain their loyalty. Those remedies are too old-fashion now, and no longer needed as silver-as-real-money is no longer understood. Even today's veterans have given up on their own liberty, yielding obedience to any Tyrant-in-Chief waving paper. Even an Obama.
The imperium that Caesar assumed, however, gave him the position of sole ruler. The literal translation of imperium is something akin to both “command” and “power”. The word is related to imperator, which came to mean emperor but was originally the title bestowed on a victorious military commander by his troops.
Caesar was the first living Roman to have his own portrait on a coin. Silver denarius of Julius Caesar, 44 BC. The inscription CAESAR DICT QUART refers to his being dictator four times. The curved symbol is a lituus, the staff used by augurs which here signifies his office of pontifex maximus. (VRoma: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Barbara McManus)
The imperium that Caesar assumed, however, gave him the position of sole ruler. The literal translation of imperium is something akin to both “command” and “power”. The word is related to imperator, which came to mean emperor but was originally the title bestowed on a victorious military commander by his troops.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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| Veteran sleeping in front of VA campus in Los Angeles (photo: Veterans Today) |
More than 2.5 million American men and women went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and while most of them returned home, many have struggled with the physical, mental and emotional trauma from warfare with insufficient help from their government.
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