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Post by hi224 on Dec 21, 2019 4:29:15 GMT
is that story bullshit?
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Dec 21, 2019 6:51:06 GMT
I never heard that story before, but if it's taken from the Shakespeare play it might be fiction, or it might be some fiction that Julius Caesar or his cronies perpetuated at the time. Caesar was good at PR, and his book about the Gallic Wars was popular with Roman citizenry.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Dec 21, 2019 13:41:56 GMT
Did YOU know that the thumbs-up and thumbs-down shown in films and on tv was ACTUALLY the OPPOSITE in real-life? So something shown as a thumbs-up was REALLY a thumbs-down and vice-versa.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Dec 21, 2019 17:16:26 GMT
Well, not literally, as in he said a single word and ended the revolt there, but yes, he did stop a revolt thanks to one single word.
Quirites. (which means citizens)
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Dec 21, 2019 17:45:23 GMT
It was technically four words:
STOP! COLLABORATE AND LISTEN!
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Post by politicidal on Dec 21, 2019 19:12:56 GMT
I never heard that story before, but if it's taken from the Shakespeare play it might be fiction, or it might be some fiction that Julius Caesar or his cronies perpetuated at the time. Caesar was good at PR, and his book about the Gallic Wars was popular with Roman citizenry. Apparently this is how it went: So the four legions gathered south of Rome, and Caesar rose up atop a dais set in front of them. The unruly legions fell into a silence, too ashamed to mutiny in presence of Caesar. In that icy, cutting voice of his Caesar asked: What did they demand that was so precious to outright revolt in the heart of the Republic?
The soldiers found themselves too ashamed to demand money from the commander they so adored, who trusted them so much. So they touched their other problem: they were veterans who fought on for too long for too little. They wanted their discharges. They wanted to leave.
Caesar looked unto their ranks and uttered a word he had never said to them before.
“Quirites.”
“Citizens.”
Citizens. Not soldiers. Citizens. With a single word, Caesar effectively branded four entire legions: effectively declared that their disloyalty had discharged them already.
Then he went on. He went on by saying that they would be effectively discharged, immediately. More, Caesar acknowledged that he owed them money… and stated that he’d pay it with plunder from the Optimates, right after winning his campaign with other legions.
If there was a soldier who still had his resolve intact after “Quirites”, that was where it broke. Those were no ordinary legions standing before Caesar that fateful day. They were the Legio VIII, who marched with Caesar the whole Gallic Wars. They were the Legio IX Hispanica, they were the Legio XII Fulminata, the legion of the thunderbolt. They were Legio X Equestris, Caesar’s favorite legion, the most devoted of his veterans, the first legion raised by his hand. They were veterans that marched a decade and a half with Caesar.
The thought that he might not have needed them was not merely inconceivable, but utterly agonizing. What, o reader, would they answer when inevitably asked: O Legio Equestris, where were you when Caesar won his greatest victory at Africa?
The soldiers’ will shattered.
They swarmed the speaker’s dais with vigour, begging for forgiveness and to be taken for the North African campaign. First Caesar feigned indifference, then pretended to be won over. With enthusiasm the four legions joined him for Africa, where he crushed the Optimates decisively at the Battle of Thapsus.
Caesar had gained back four unruly veteran legions with little more than the love his men had for him combined with a single word.
“Quirites.”
“Citizens.”www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Julius-Caesar-allegedly-ended-a-revolt-of-his-soldiers-by-saying-one-word
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