The Man Who Watched His Sons Die in the Forum
In 509 BC, the man who had just liberated Rome from its last king sat in the curule chair of the consul and ordered his own sons brought before him in chains. They had been caught plotting to restore the Tarquin monarchy. He did not flinch. He watched the lictors execute them.
Plutarch tells this story not as a...
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