tibgracchus:garland-on-thy-brow:tibgracchus:finished civil war! more weird lucan:1) the size of the
tibgracchus:garland-on-thy-brow:tibgracchus:finished civil war! more weird lucan:1) the size of the republican fleet. hyperbole whomst?2) cato gives a eulogy for pompey and starts with “compared to our ancestors, pompey sucked” before going on to say that hey, pompey may have made many mistakes, but he could have been Way Worse3) when you’re cato the younger and your army encounters a whole bunch of snakes4) lucan also calls alexander the great a “lucky bandit”Size of fleet ™.Appian: Gaius Cassius, with 70 ships…Footnote: Lucius Cassius… With 10…i think this is the fleet that goes to cyrene so maybe a different one but idk and i don’t have appian w me :/unless you’re talking abt a different fleet hyperbole in which case i’m glad that’s a genre now -- source link
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