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  • So anyway, here is what Suetonius says about Caesar’s funeral ( well, the first paragraph translated by Gavorse)

    When the funeral was announced, a pyre was erected in the Field of Mars near the tomb of Julia. In front of the rostra was placed a gilded shrine, made after the model of the temple of Venus Genetrix. Within was a bier of ivory with coverlets of purple and gold, and at its head a pillar hung with the robe in which he was slain. Since it was clear that the day would not be long enough for those who offered gifts, they were directed to bring them to the Campus by whatsoever streets of the city they wished, regardless of any order of precedence. At the funeral games, to rouse pity and indignation at his death, these words from the Contest for the arms of Pacuvius were sung:

    Saved I these men that they might murder me?

  • Vibe coding is the refuge of the incompetent, and has enough shock and awe to part fools with their money .

    While I am biased, having coded too many lines, over the years, for my own good; I believe it is a healthy bias grounded in experience

  • Carthage definitely had to supply a complex theater of operations. But I remember he did get supplies , and once was waiting in a port city for promised supplies that were diverted.

    That cost him alliances, and set the tone, for a while , where he had to prove, and keep proving, to others in Italy that he could be a reliable balance to Rome. It definitely changed his campaign, and forced him into battles he rather had avoided.

    A lot of his success was advertising to others in Italy that they could depend on him. A lot of the troops and supplies he used were from those allies in Italy.

    Also, to change the history all he had to do was delay Roman expansion by a few decades; it was probably set in stone he could not keep an invasion up forever: but organizing a lasting counterbalance, with many Tribes and cities in Italy, using Carthage as a nucleus, was possible.

    Rome had plenty of opponents in Italy without him, but they had no good way to unify against Rome without him

  • There were times when extra troops and supplies were stopped by his enemies at home.

    In an alternate history he might have locked down parts of southern Italy: hobbling an expansionist Rome long enough for everything to be different

  • That political rivalry in Carthage against his family probably changed the history of Europe. Who knows what he could have done with timely support in Italy? We would not be speaking English for sure

  • Hannibal was also sabotaged by his rivals in Carthage. He fought a political war at home and lost that first.

    It’s almost like the Carthaginians did not trust a Ceaser and nipped him in the bud