#<- don’t @ me abt the terminology i’m Aware. it works well enough for this purpose

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Honestly, there's so much unhinged potential just waiting there with the forgotten political murders/deaths in the late Roman republic. Asellio, killed at an alter! Lucius Cornelius Merula (Flamen dialis) using himself as a sacrifice to curse the Marians! So. Much. Potential.

yes!!! i really need to read appian probably because i’m sure there are more in there, especially from that weird period in the 80s! ALSO there’s so much potential in whatever cicero is doing with political murders as exempla in speeches because like. is there a canon of political murders or is cicero trying to create a canon of political murders? and he thinks they were Good murders and there should be more of them. v interested in the murders he omits!!!!!! or the ones he says were bad, actually! marcus marius gratidianus, sacrificed to the ghost of catulus cos102! i am soooooo interested in sacrificial deaths / murders / particularly of priests like merula or quintus mucius scaevola because like. ok the sacrificial undertones of nasica serapio as pontifex maximus killing tiberius gracchus Are disputed but are also something that was In The Ancient Air like people Thought about it. and then the line from pontifex maximus Killing -> pontifex maximus (caesar) Being Killed is soooooo sexy. but even more so when you find these points along it!

(alsooo am i right in recognising you as no.1 lucius cornelius merula poster because he is someone i know next to nothing about and i would be v interested if you want to like. yell)

#many years ago i spent a While trying to find Murdered Optimates #<- don’t @ me abt the terminology i’m Aware. it works well enough for this purpose #also i Love it when romans are like. ok well i guess i will have to human sacrifice myself about this. devotio and all that! #lucius cornelius merula #aulus sempronius asellio #beeps