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And in the long run, I think that's a good practice to have, because what as we'll see with Rome, what undoes any republic is the idea that one person is just totally indispensable to it.

I got something else to do.

I got something else to do.

So is he the guy like in the lecture? Yeah. I mean, I assume he's probably thinking like if you're thinking the ideal abstract Roman, he'd be like a citizen farmer. Okay, so yeah, so a citizen farmer warrior? Yeah, yeah. That would be like... If you get this wrong, I won't hold that against you. That'd be like Cincinnatus, you know? Yeah.

So is he the guy like in the lecture? Yeah. I mean, I assume he's probably thinking like if you're thinking the ideal abstract Roman, he'd be like a citizen farmer. Okay, so yeah, so a citizen farmer warrior? Yeah, yeah. That would be like... If you get this wrong, I won't hold that against you. That'd be like Cincinnatus, you know? Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know his full name. Horatius at the Bridge. Great poem.

Yeah, I don't know his full name. Horatius at the Bridge. Great poem.

Pontifex Maximus. That's why the Roman Pope is called the Pontifex.

Pontifex Maximus. That's why the Roman Pope is called the Pontifex.

It was this like funny prayer they would do where they would act like if they were attacking an enemy city, they would pray like, hey, gods of the other people, you should come be our gods instead.

It was this like funny prayer they would do where they would act like if they were attacking an enemy city, they would pray like, hey, gods of the other people, you should come be our gods instead.

Because he was dictator and he handed the power back like he left his farm won a battle and then quit.

Because he was dictator and he handed the power back like he left his farm won a battle and then quit.

He became dictator but then he forfeited it voluntarily.

He became dictator but then he forfeited it voluntarily.

A dictator was someone elected to emergency powers. Yep, that's right.

A dictator was someone elected to emergency powers. Yep, that's right.

Pyrrhus of Epirus. Pyrrhic victory. He won but lost a lot of dudes and then said he could not keep fighting the Romans because if he won too many battles, he would lose the war. Last one. The Romans had conquered most of the Italian peninsula by what year? They'd done most of it by... Oh, yeah, they defeated the Greeks like 275. Yeah, it was 270 BC. Yeah, that sounds about right.

Pyrrhus of Epirus. Pyrrhic victory. He won but lost a lot of dudes and then said he could not keep fighting the Romans because if he won too many battles, he would lose the war. Last one. The Romans had conquered most of the Italian peninsula by what year? They'd done most of it by... Oh, yeah, they defeated the Greeks like 275. Yeah, it was 270 BC. Yeah, that sounds about right.

It's a valid concern because the best thing the Department of Education has currently is they have the civil rights office where they can say you're discriminating against white kids or whatever. And I'd hope that we can get rid of the Department of Education, but move that to the DOJ because that law still exists.