When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he famously showed clemency to his political enemies. In a world accustomed to brutality and violence, this was a shock. People couldn’t believe it at first, it seemed too strange to be true. Empathy and mercy for enemies was a foreign concept.
Julius Caesar continued this policy of clemency throughout the civil war, even when his enemies routinely rejoined the war against him after being pardoned. In the end, on the Ides of March, when Caesar was assassinated, men who he had shown clemency to were even among his assassins. The most famous of these was a man named Brutus.
To learn more about the life of Julius Caesar and the fall of the Roman Republic, listen to my podcast, The March of History. You can find it here on my YouTube channel or on any podcast platform by searching “The March of History”.
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