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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 277067" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Indeed. It also makes clear that even when Caesar was late in payment, the "Pay was good." It seems apparent that the officers, and even the average Legionnaire, became quite wealthy from serving with Caesar--if he survived.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm not quite sure what makes Caesar so "bad"--to my mind, he was a visionary, a brilliant general and politician, and a great hero of Rome,who wanted to make Rome strong, and better able to make its way in a hostile world.The fact that he enslaved an entire culture--slaughtering over a million people and enslaving more than another million--isn't really any different than what any other Roman general would have done, had he been in Caesar's place. Next, the Gauls had the tools to win, and keep their independence. But they effed it up because they couldn't get their act together and be united. That is a fatal cultural mistake--and every culture without exception that has been unable to maintain a ferocious political and military unity has been left for the crows. Look at the the Gauls, the Celts of Britain, the Scots, the Irish, the Indian tribes of North America; the Indian tribes of South America; the tribes and kingdoms of Africa; Various tribes and kingdoms and governments of Asia.Over and over again, throughout four thousand years of history, those peoples who can't unite, and are too busy squabbling amongst themselves get crushed. That is the lesson of history over and over again, and many different peoples and cultures seem to have been unable or too late in grasping that salient concept.Legionnaires could make some real money, after all, they had plunder rights if the city resisted!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> That can be a whole lot of wealth! Imagine what some of them had from after 20 years of campaigning? Imagine that some of them could have set themselves up quite well, and lived the rest of their lives in comfort and priviledge. There is a reason, after all, that the men really did love Caesar.With but a single word, he had them clamoring to fight to the death for him...Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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