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Politics › Re: Fayose Reacts To Arrest Of Abiodun Agbele, His 'closest' Friend By EFCC by BraniacX(m): 10:27am On Jun 28, 2016
Drabeey:
I wont mention you again... Your ignorance above my comprehension, it is factory fitted.
hahahahahahaha!! grin grin grin
Is insulting me your default exit mechanism? cheesy
I will let that fly nigger! Just cure me of my ignorance and educate plain poor old ignorant me embarassed

Bwahahahahahahaha grin

Lame diversionari tactic cool
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 10:00am On Jun 28, 2016
sexstoriexpost:
Cercei is da bomb! shocked shocked shocked damn!

"We didn't invade, we were invited" lol grin grin

"Not by me"

Arya is back... Loved how she ended Walder Frey miserable life. undecided undecided

Dragon Queen fully in the game of thrones... Dragon Queen versus Queen Cercei grin grin who is going to winhuh

Snow, king in the north...unbelievable considering he is not even a Stark, bastard or not but a bloody dragon as confirmed by our all seeing eyes, the new three eyed raven cheesy cheesy

A convergence of all the principal actors have been established...now we wait for another bloody year to watch the next season. cry cry cry

What is dead may never die!
What part of no spoilers till today did you miss? undecided
Politics › Re: Fayose Reacts To Arrest Of Abiodun Agbele, His 'closest' Friend By EFCC by BraniacX(m): 9:47am On Jun 28, 2016
Drabeey:
see how you displayed your insanity in public. If you aint well informed, must you make your ignorance talk of town?

All these analysis you mentioned above are not rocket science.
The plain truth is that, we know how these people diverted public funds into their own pockets. Yes, all these loots are yet to be uncovered, some are not even traceable yet. But in ur own ignorant mind now, you want the whole thing published and your paymasters device new methods to elope the law abi? Face your warrant and tell Fayose this.... We are coming for him in a big way.
Who's we? undecided

And what's with knowing? Is it the selective clairvoyance of your lagos-ibadan media houseshuh

Oya prove my ignorance, show me what i don't know about looting and looters
Politics › Re: Fayose Reacts To Arrest Of Abiodun Agbele, His 'closest' Friend By EFCC by BraniacX(m): 9:03am On Jun 28, 2016
codedslayer:
Coming from an ipob zombie a more sensible person than me. I laugh cheesy cheesy cheesy and suffer embarassed embarassed embarassed
Corrected cool
Politics › Re: Fayose Reacts To Arrest Of Abiodun Agbele, His 'closest' Friend By EFCC by BraniacX(m): 8:58am On Jun 28, 2016
Drabeey:
you might as well make a good comment without being an empty head. 'Dictatorship' is telling people to return loots? I think its tme to take your concoction.
Return loots like the imaginary $700million found in diezanis house right? undecided loot like the alleged recovered loot returned by unnamed ghosts right? undecided return loots like the alleged $2.1billion dasuki arms scandal while only about $300million is being prosecuted for by the EFCC? undecided return loots like the CBN's missing $40billion according to sanusi which the current APC government have found it convenient not to talk about one year into office after using it as campaign propaganda right? undecided
is your brain incapable of independent and objective analysis or are you just plain old sycophantic i wonder? angry
Tell me, how much loot have you gathered in your ”airhead" from the pages of newspapers? And yet you call someone else empty headhuh
Politics › Re: Ogun: Militants Engage Soldiers, Police In Gun Duel by BraniacX(m): 8:35am On Jun 28, 2016
OmoAjowa7:
Nobody died.

Lol I see them dinosaur heads dancing on this thread. See ehn, I'm just waiting for another Buratai shooting party
somewhere in the red mud region and watch me go ham on these mo4os.

This is the third thread I'm bookmarking since those guys attacked

We shall revisit these threads and God bless any of you liberal mo4os come here and yarn dust about how I'm heartless, wicked
and stuff. Una no dey see all these threads bah. When we start, y'all will start forming Pastor Adeboye

Pata iya gbogbo yin grin

As per the attacks, I heard from a reliable source that they weren't ethnically motivated but regardless, it's high time we nipped this in the bud. Amosun hasn't even said anything about it. Smh

Safe to say of all the major tribes, Yorubas are the least prepared incase of an ethnic war. We have no security. Anyone can
kill and get away with it
Now that is the real fact! These miscreants are as ijaw as they are yoruba and military(the joint venture stakeholders in the illegal bunkering activity) the problem here is trying to assign all the discredit to the ijaw alone for Niger Delta propaganda shock value!! That is where this bias reporting failed and as a Niger Deltan i will resist that. Funny thing is most of these miscreants of ijaw ethnicity being villified here were born and raised in the creeks around lagos/ogun, are married and settled among the indigenous yorubas there and have never been to ondo much less the Niger Delta proper, so exactly how Niger Deltan are they beyond their ethnicity? undecided
Politics › Re: Aisha Buhari To Visit USA For A World Ladies Conference On.june 30 by BraniacX(m): 1:50pm On Jun 27, 2016
tbaba1234:
I am struggling to see how the US first lady being in Africa is related to the topic. Certainly, if she is meant to be in colorado on the 30th, she will.

Please can you provide evidence of the conference, that took place in May.
Is english comprehension your bane? undecided

Or did you miss the part that said that conference already took place in may or the link providing the itinerary of the FLOTUS as being S.A to Liberia to Morocco to spain?
Am Sorry for your propaganda misfire!! tongue kpele
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 5:32pm On Jun 26, 2016
For those who are going to be among the first people to watch the season VI finale
[size=30]PLEASE NO SPOILERS HERE [color=orange]TILL[/color] [color=pink]9:00am[/color] TUESDAY [color=indigo]MORNING[/color][/size]


[color=violet]thanks[/color] [color=maroon]for[/color] [color=cyan]your[/color] [color=grey]understanding[/color] [color=gold]and[/color] cooperation wink

Cc: seun
Politics › Re: Vandalism: Buhari Begs Militants, Says “they Use Hi-tech weapons” by BraniacX(m): 7:55pm On Jun 25, 2016
DaBullIT:
Buhari stop this rubbish and use your experience as a general to tackle these people


when they are given chance to talk , that's when they'll grow more liver

anybody doing anything detrimental to the safety and security of this country is an enemy of the state as should be treated as such , pipeline bombing inclusive
Talk is cheap undecided

Enlist and get posted there undecided

Seasoned vets are praying to avoid being posted there but you're here running your mouth!
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 4:14am On Jun 25, 2016
UjSizzle:
While dem boys are arguing over battle strategies, I'm just going to sit here and salivate over this meaty hunk of a man now that Ramsay is dead cheesy


Goodbye Kit Harrington
Hello Iwan Rheon-- my new Man Crush Everyday kiss
You n all your men crushes sef! undecided anyway, what does jhaqen h'agar have to say about this?


****************
MODIFIED


Ooops! shocked sorry not you, a certain vickyderra i guess, keep crushing wink
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 3:29am On Jun 25, 2016
luxanne:
That was all BraniacX not me grin
Now that the waif is too dead to be cool i guess it is convenient to not look up to down on her undecided
Either way, a girl whose name is arya luxanne stark still has one mission to execute before she can not be "no one" cool

Kindly strangle totori armadeo if you may grin
Business › Re: UNIZIK Student Ptotests Against Ecobank As ATM Debits Her Without Dispensing by BraniacX(m): 3:17am On Jun 25, 2016
Ecobank is a criminal bank!!!!

I stopped transacting with my account shortly after they debited my N10,000 without paying me in lagos since last year! Even after i have gone to their customer care severally in different branches and different states!
When they were oceanic bank you would have received an alert on the refund of your money in less than 5mins but not anymore since sanusi lamido ruined the bank and inflicted this eco management on us! May thunder fire but sanusi and ecobank


#ecobankiscriminal angry
Politics › Re: Buratai Summons Top Commanders To Emergency Meeting by BraniacX(m): 2:57am On Jun 25, 2016
SleekAboki:
Even if there be any coup it would be bloodless and executed without shooting a bullet cos even maiguards at Aso Rock are not happy with buhari.
You'll probably support this coup if true especially if carried out and benefited from by officers from your part of the country given the fact that PMB is obviously dying just so as to prevent power from leaving your region!

YES!!!!! We can deduce all these too undecided
Crime › Re: People Killed By Militants In Ikorodu, Lagos (Photos, Video) by BraniacX(m): 2:45am On Jun 25, 2016
TeamSimple:
Are you for real?
Please tell me where you reside.
A friend of mine lives at oluwakemi, so i know the guy has a point, the majority of those involved in the bunkering were of ijaw origin, but they were never alone, their collaborators and beneficiaries were diverse from landlords, residents, military and even a politician or two.... The main grouse now is the non-release of the corpse of their slain leader, the military and police posted there are proving next to useless, always arriving after the act, people are fleeing in droves and i don't see this cycle stopping anytime soon
Crime › Re: People Killed By Militants In Ikorodu, Lagos (Photos, Video) by BraniacX(m): 2:38am On Jun 25, 2016
Sincere4u:
I made enquiry about this sack from a retired military officer from the northwest and he explained that the sacking was genuinely justifiable and majority of those that were fired were from the north.
This was against an earlier rumour that most of the 200 officers that lost jobs were from the South East.
List please
Crime › Re: People Killed By Militants In Ikorodu, Lagos (Photos, Video) by BraniacX(m): 2:34am On Jun 25, 2016
ALAYORMII:
The carnage wasn't carried out by NDA or any militant groups


There's a notorious group of people (Ijaw boiz, bunkers and vandals) in that area, and from reports am getting, the leader of the group went with some of his members for a robbery operation and was killed in the process and his corpse was taken away and his boiz have been threatening to kill people indiscriminately if his corpse is not released to them for burial
You are right!

That exactly is what happened, I have been there thrice during the week, while commercial and economic activities are unaffected around agric and owutu, the interior parts is palpating with fear
Literature › Re: Questions, Theories, And Trivia Of The ASOIAF (Game Of Thrones) Books. by BraniacX(m): 10:20am On Jun 21, 2016
iykmora:
Choi, anytime I see an update of this thread,i quickly click on it hoping to see a link from Gbola5 of a new chapter from Grrm...aaaaahhhh by Na una two I go come see. Choi, see how lengthy it posts are, Na one quote of a script or an entire chapter of a book una scatter up there so? I don dey fear una walahi...










***checks title of thread again on his way out***

una weldone o... sad tongue
My bad grin embarassed grin embarassed grin embarassed grin
Literature › Re: Questions, Theories, And Trivia Of The ASOIAF (Game Of Thrones) Books. by BraniacX(m): 10:14am On Jun 21, 2016
SIRcumalot:
so you read the hard-copy of the series?
waoh!!!
Marius aligned with Saturninus so the great man isnt infallible.
I recall that it was Marius who made ceasear the flamen dialis not Sulla.Sulla never really add any serious beef with ceasear.
all this talk as made me to finally start reading the October horse.


@armadeo make sure you download the versions that has pictures and map.
Marius used not aligned with saturninius when he was only a promising and brilliant tribune of the plebs but when saturninius grew wings and went demagouge, marius as dictator sanctioned his murder by sulla and his aristocratic goon squad grin
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 10:06am On Jun 21, 2016
obstead200:
GBAM!!!!!!
just her title dey trip me die.
Whenever she says those magic words "dhacrahys" my hairs stand on end.
When she storms the seven kingdoms, she will bring the Red keep and all her enemies to their knees in terror
The dragons are still young, they can be killed and in westeros, men knew how to wage wars against dragons, I hope they haven't forgotten! Though it seems they have forgotten outside westeros so the seven kingdoms rolling over for danny undecided not gonna happen
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 9:58am On Jun 21, 2016
armadeo:
Even I myself shock.

"What have I done"? grin grin
Good question^^^^^ angry grin angry grin angry grin angry grin angry
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 8:01am On Jun 21, 2016
armadeo:
Your welcome bro. If you've read or wang to read the books visit the other thread. It made me read the books again. Subtle things you obviously missed the first time.

Ps in this episode during the battle Jon ani holds an ally and says " it worked " the ally was immediately shot down with an arrow.

The question is what worked?


Watch again.



All in all EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Who have you unleashed on our thread dude? grin

The guy has "maniacally" appealing sadist ideas cheesy butt-bleeped with a cudgel! shocked I wouldn't wish that on my enemy but now i can't stop wishing ramsey got that embarassed
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 7:57am On Jun 21, 2016
siempere:
Graviton....u are wicked simple..!!!...picture of a cudgel
cheesy
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 7:53am On Jun 21, 2016
Graviton2:
I wanted Ramsey's death to look something like this -

1. His "netherparts" should have been chopped off
2. Then those parts should be stewed up while he watched
3. Then he should have been made to eat it all up
4. Then he should be stripped (and whipped, optional) and left out in the cold for a while
5. He should be anally raped with something really large (a cudgel, maybe)
**He should be begging for death by now**
6. Then he should have his eyes gourged out (Come and see)
7. Then maybe Flayed SLOWLY and left out to die

My honest opinion.
shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 7:49am On Jun 21, 2016
UjSizzle:
Am I the only one who thinks Ramsey Bolton is one wickedly handsome man? cheesy That smile...
Oh no! shocked don't you dare say that! Don't You! angry
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 7:46am On Jun 21, 2016
UjSizzle:
Thank you smiley
Share grin
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 12:09am On Jun 21, 2016
UjSizzle:
Oh my God, my blood is soooo high cheesy
Please donate blood and save a life! grin
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m):
Amis:
Now that's a real G.O.T episode
Blood lust grin
TV/Movies › Re: Game Of Thrones Discussion (Beware Of Spoilers) by BraniacX(m): 11:57pm On Jun 20, 2016
siempere:
I wish he'll be fed to d hounds.... by Sansa preferably...
Congrats wink
Literature › Re: Questions, Theories, And Trivia Of The ASOIAF (Game Of Thrones) Books. by BraniacX(m): 11:38pm On Jun 20, 2016
armadeo:
Links to the book are on the post above this one.

I need links to this Roman epic you guys have been discussing. Lets see if it's as hot as you say.
The link for A sworn sword isn't in Gbola5's post.

I don't know if digital versions of these books are available but the authors name is colleen McCullough and the first book in that series i think is "first man in rome" others are "fortune's favourites" "grass crown" "ceasar" "ceasar's women" amongst others.
Christianity Etc › Re: Mbaka: Buhari's Chance Of Healing May Be Slim by BraniacX(m): 10:30pm On Jun 18, 2016
He equally declared that there were some people who were not happy Buhari was alive.

"Such people hated everything about the President"
, he stated, while narrating the vision he had before the President's current trip to London.
Reporting for acknowledgement!!! undecided

If you vex go jam tractor angry
Literature › Re: The Murderer: A story by d9ty7 by BraniacX(m): 3:55pm On Jun 18, 2016
Phew! grin
Finally
Welcome back from e-siberia D9ty7 wink
Literature › Re: Questions, Theories, And Trivia Of The ASOIAF (Game Of Thrones) Books. by BraniacX(m): 3:23pm On Jun 18, 2016
Are we still on this? grin okay if you insist cool
SIRcumalot:
@Brainiacx
Am just seeing this
You must have read the book multiple times. my reply will never be this tight.
grin


2 triumph bro,two.for my boy Pompey
Meticulous and carefulness have their own merit,and are worthy desirable traits in a general
And in his youth he inherited his father veteran army and knows enough not to get in their way.
he learnt that the hard way! If his troops had been green, he would have been annihilated by sertoriuses superior tactics, his troop paid the cost in heavy decimation and loss of lives because he was an inept and unqualified general, there is a reason why only consuls were allowed to lead armies and the truth is simple - age and leadership experience


Concerning his politics
he became consul at very young age before he discovered politics wasn't for him.
same as young marius he became consul very young before the constitutionally set time by fiat or the threat of an army of occupation not loyal to rome but loyal to its general and rome was under sullas dictatorship by then and sulla facilitated this to pander to pompeys bloated ego! Sulla promptly dispatched him to go and get mauled by sertorius in spain because he knew that engaging sertorius himself would be costly to him so what better way to do it than to send a bumbling idiot with a private army?



Marius for all his military brilliance, isn't that much of a politician, he relies heavily on bribing tribunes of the pleb and senators than actual political machination,same as Pompey.
Magnus became consul at very young age before he discovering politics wasn't for him.
Been able to leverage his importance to get himself the consulship is still a worthy feat even if he didn't do it with much grace
[b] you're kidding righthuh? What is more political than bribery? grin every single politician who could afford it bribed multiple times over and over and over again even the self proclaimed sanctimonious political purist cato had to make the boni bribe in certain elections despite creating the anti-bribery court cheesy
Marius and ceasar are prime politicians because they didn't just bribe mindless oafs, they bribed men of intellect and pedigree knowing there is a prime tool for every job and many of their clients later became consuls so how can you compare pompey to them? Also most times marius and ceasar didn't need to bribe, their name alone associated with any candidate was enough to guarantee victory for that candidate as they were extremely popular with the capite censi and knights of the first and second class or else why do you think sulla determined to ruin marius because he showed up on the day of his consulship procession while still recovering from stroke? Because marius stole his show and day of glory cheesy

Yes pompey leveraged his private army to attain consulship at a much younger age and sulla flattered and acquiesced him under his dictatorship but to true roman politicians like marius and ceasar who followed the "maos honorarium" that can never be an achievement because it was victory without rivalry and no true roman noble can call himself great unless his adversaries and opposition are great and formidable too. Greatness is only confirmed when you thrive in the midst of great adversaries. Remember scaurus princeps senatus saying he loved marius as much as he hated him? Cicero thanking ceasar for his help in the dolabella issue? Now those are great men! Their rivals were happy to have them around
Anyway if that is an achievement then gaius marius junior beat him to it by attaining consulship at a much younger age and by leveraging not on a private army but his fathers iconic popularity
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Bear in mind I haven't read the last two book but I know how history plays out seeing as how taking Julia Brutus may've started the ball rolling to the ides of march that mayn't have been ceasear best idea.
[b]get this simple fact ceasar was opposed from day one of his birth by various great people for various reasons having nothing to do with him having done anything wrong e.g by marius because a seer prophesied he will be greater than him, by sulla because he saw himself in ceasar and was unhappy his son died while ceasar thrived, by lucullus because he was too handsome and highborn and could make foreign rulers obey his wishes even when he had no official authority, by cato because ceasar was a profligate womaniser and therefore immoral in his eyes and represented everything he wasn't, by the boni because he refused to be bought despite being poor and to them he represented everything sulla was despite the fact that he did nothing of that sort and followed the "maos honorarium" in his political career, by marcus tullius cicero because ceasars existence relegated him from legal genius status to mere legally brilliant, by bilbulus because it was to him better to fail and make ceasar fail too than to succeed together and allow ceasars brilliance to be seen I can go on and on but i'll stop there, the ides of march wasn't ceasars doing but the doing of his numerous enemies who were determined to bring him down no matter the cost to the republic and themselves and ceasar true to his nature instilled in him from infancy by the great lady aurelia his mother was always magnanimous to his opponents again and again after defeating them because he believed that as a true roman nobleman he needed strong opposition in his political career in order to be called great until finally they resorted to plain old murder carried out by themselves to kill ceasar, ceasar couldn't have seen that one coming because as a nobleman he couldn't have done that much less expect other noblemen who he forgave again and again to do that to him and rightly so ceasars partisans never forgave as they went after his killers and didn't spare their lives with octavius his adopted son emerging victorius eventually and literally unchallengable thus ending the republic and birthing the empire[/b]



SULLA.
How many people can do what he did to the piglet ?
Am not arguing about his virtue he truly is a horrible character same as most of his peers if we judge through the morals of the present era,
But it his the way he carries himself just for contrast look at how rumours of homosexuality affected ceasear and how Sulla dealt with his?
Or when he recognizes ceasear threat in the future and made him the pontifex maximus?
Or the issue with Pompey triumph and the elephant ?
It is so many minute moments like this,that made him my favourite
he should have nailed Ceasear head to the rostra (his friendship/love for his mother probably stayed his hands)
And more importantly he gave up Power.
[b]

Marius could have if he set his mind to it, so could ceasar but those two deemed such methods as being far below them to condescend to, imagine poisoning by a man? He reminds me of oberyn martell in G.O.T while marius was more like tywin lannister and ceasar a much more upgraded version of tywin lannister. Sullas control of the piglet centered around hero worship but when ceasar and marius controlled men, the men always felt it was in their own interests to be on their side (check ceasar and pompey grin)

How did handling the rumours of homosexuality affect their careers significantlyhuh? Both men were extremely gorgeous and extremely well born, Sulla was bisexual ceasar was straight so of course ceasar was angrier that such a rumour was attached to him by his opponents and how they handled it showed ceasars savvyness grin while sulla went underground, hid and denied himself the pleasure of his male lovers until he became a dictator and didn't give a damn, ceasar didn't expend an iota of his energy denying that he was homosexual, he rather went around seducing the wives of all his accusers one by one and allowed the knowledge to become public and they all had to divorce their wives and thus the accusation of homosexuality died a natural death grin

He didn't make ceasar pontifex maximus because of him being a threat, he did it because of the prophecy that ceasar would be greater than marius his nemesis and ceasar being a roman of the patrician class like him was a perfect revenge by him upon marius so that another patrician like himself would outshine the then greatest roman of all time marius who was a plebian. He undid mariuses cage of making ceasar flamen dialis which precluded him from a political and military career thereby freeing him to go and be great like the prophecy foretold

Yes he should have killed ceasar because in ceasar he saw a replica of himself only a better version, gorgeous, patrician, unyielding, arrogant, brilliant, without fear with exception that ceasar followed the maos honorarium but sulla couldn't know that, for all he knew, ceasar would end up a dictator like himself and why should he have killed ceasar? Because ceasar called his dictatorship and suspension of the rule of law illegal and refused to repudiate his uncle mariushuh? Guess what? According to the laws and statues of rome, ceasar was right plus he was only a sixteen year old kid then
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CEASEAR .
My only beef with this "bald fork" is how he was represented by the author and history in general.
Brilliant to a fault and always had tremendous luck in anything he does almost has if the gods have destined ceasear to be great I never got that from Marius or sulla
He also is the star of the book and I can't change history.

And if we both agree that Sulla was able to defeat Marius after Mariuses wasn't the same guy he was anymore then we can give Pompey the benefit of the doubt.
I only mentioned Gaul because I have a faint recollection of Gauis mocking Pompey achievement in Gaul.
[b] he ceasar was represented as history recorded him to be Q.E.D
And on his baldness in his sixtees, blame his mother aurelia grin aurelian males tend to baldness and you would agree with me that ceasars brilliance and steel were aurelian traits so why not his baldness wink cheesy

We don't both agree that sulla defeated marius on a battlefield as that never happened! The only armed conflict between both of them was on sulla's coup when he matched his army into rome and became the first roman in history to break that law and marius had to arm untrained mobs to oppose them which understandably was an exercise in futility against a fully commissioned army forcing marius and all his supporters to flee from rome. When marius assembled an army and came back, sulla and his army had gone to asia to fight the pontic king mithridiates which was the bone of contention between him and marius in the first place, of course by then marius was half mad because of the humiliation a great man like himself was made to suffer by his one time right hand man when he fled, he was mad to the extent that people who knew him well subtly tried to fight against him being part of or in charge of the army, people like his own son gaius marius junior and quintus sertorius his nephew but the rest of the public only saw what they knew of him, marius the iconic saviour of rome until it was too late and he unleashed his madness induced illogical killing spree on them but if a senile(not mad) marius took to the field against sulla, he would have beaten sulla for while sulla was a very quick and adaptable learner, he still remained a student compared to marius who designed his military tactics on his own intuition. Even sulla was relieved when he came back from asia knowing marius had died from a third stroke wink

Ceasar was mocking arhenobabuses achievement in gaul across the alps which was a roman territory conquered and founded by his grandfather and which he naturally thought should remain exclusively, one of his clans spheres of influence, and mind you, that territory was less than 1/12 of gaul in total, the other parts of gaul were the proper barbarian gaul and they normally invaded roman gaul whenever they felt like and that was the part that ceasar conquered and subjugated including reconquering roman gaul when they rebelled. Let me put this into perspective for you, remember the germanic horde that marius defeated? Remember how they massacred roman army after roman army until marius came and defeated them? Okay, remember that during the exodus like migration of these millions of germans, the only gaellic territory they ravaged was gaul across the alps which was a roman colony but when they migrated through barbarian gaul, they negotiated their way through by working as farm labourers for the gauls in exchange for safe passage not by fighting, these are the gauls that ceasar conquered so if marius could be labelled great for defeating these germans, shouldn't ceasar be called great too for defeating the gauls that these germans were afraid to fight? undecided
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Oh my fingers ache........this was lengthy cool grin

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