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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 332626" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Chapter XI: The Battle of Pharsalus____________________________________________________Quote:"Plutarch was to lament that, combined, two such famous, talented Roman generals and their seventy thousand men could have conquered the old enemy Parthia for Rome, could have marched unassailed all the way to India. Instead, here they were, bent on destroying each other."____________________________________________________End Quote.Indeed, I have to agree with Plutarch. Pompey, like Caesar, was a great hero, and a brilliant commander. Rome loses much all around by having these two great commanders fight, regardless of who the victor is, really.As an added thought, in my view, despite Rome's justified position as the greatest empire in history, Rome often wasted far too much blood, talent, and gold on frequent civil wars and in-fighting between various generals and would-be emperors. Should Rome have been thoroughly united, and embraced a smooth system of imperial election, the mind is boggled by what Rome could have accomplished! As it was, it is a fine testimony to the efficiency and skill of the Imperial beuracracy and the skill of the Legions that Rome was able to endure within the pale of greatness despite what the generals did, and the suffering of various civil wars.One can only imagine what Rome might have been able to do!<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=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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