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Who's YOUR hero? - A FELLOWSHIP thread.

KomissarSteve

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: A man of no illustrious background, who had never commanded an army, who never seized power over the Roman Republic, as so many men had done before him - and yet who still somehow managed to ascend to the same level of greatness as Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, and Octavian. A man who stuck by his convictions, but who also stuck to his principles to the very end.

Also, I must admit that I feel a certain kinship with Cicero in that his keen wit and scathing rhetorical retorts nevertheless often got him into trouble, and eventually brought about his untimely assassination by Mark Antony's thugs. Considering the fact that I'm nowhere near as eloquent as Cicero was, I suppose there's a lesson for me to learn through his biography about keeping my tongue under control - lest I wind up with my head and hands nailed to the Rostra.;)
 
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