"...our ancestors, experimenting how hard is to cohabit, had imagined two different insititutions: ostracism and a very clever (but used very rarely) practice: damnatio memoriae."

Rome nevertheless disappeared. It didn't help.

And the thing with "the one who leads" went wrong too more than once.

Please see Giulio Cesare. Il dittatore democratico by Luciano Canfora for a very famous example.

Best regards, Karl

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

In reply to Re^2: Can I please have multiple downvotes per (certain monk's) posts. by karlgoethebier
in thread Can I please have multiple downvotes per (certain monk's) posts. by BrowserUk

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