Rome Gave One Man Total Power. He Gave It Back in Fifteen Days.
The senators found him plowing. It was 458 BC, and a Roman army was surrounded and besieged in the hills southeast of the city, trapped by the Aequi tribe in a hollow near Mount Algidus, unable to advance or retreat without being cut down. The Republic needed a dictator — a magistrate with...
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