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Imperium

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Imperium	comment	Robert Harris's fictionalised biography of Cicero (106-43 BC) in three parts, as told by his slave and confidential secretary Tiro, a real person who served as Cicero's secretary throughout his career and apparently did write a real biography of Cicero that is lost to history.In Harris's novel series, Tiro, through Cicero, narrates the final decades of the Roman Republic, as the power struggles between people like Crassus, Pompey, Caesar, Antony, and Octavian eventually led to the destruction of the Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.The series is a trilogy: Imperium: (2006) Covering Cicero's entry into public life in 79 BC, going through his election to consul in 64 BC. Lustrum: (2009) Cicero's consulate in 63 BC, including his defeat of Catilina's conspiracy, and the four years after, running to 58 BC, ending with his exile from Rome in 58 BC. Dictator: (2016) The last 15 years of Cicero's life, covering the Roman civil wars and the rise of Julius Caesar, Caesar's assassination, and the formation of the Second Triumvirate that resulted in Cicero's death on Mark Antony's orders in 43 BC.
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Imperium / int_117c6f30	type	Old Man Marrying a Child
Imperium / int_117c6f30	comment	Old Man Marrying a Child: Pompey (47) marries Julius Caesar's daughter Julia (14). Cicero is disgusted, and views it as Caesar prostituting his own child for the sake of maintaining an alliance, and yet Tiro notes that she seems to genuinely love Pompey and is happy with the whole arrangement. Years later, Cicero himself marries a 15-year-old girl when he's 60, solely because she's from a rich family and he's in desperate need of money. Predictably, it's a complete disaster - unlike Pompey he's extremely uncomfortable with the arrangement, mostly ignores his young wife or tries to avoid her, and ends up quickly divorcing her largely because he finds the whole situation so painfully awkward.
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Imperium / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Imperium / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: For all his bluster about protecting Cicero, Pompey does nothing when Caesar unleashes Clodius against him. Cicero goes to Pompey for help when he is on the verge of being exiled, but Pompey hides in his villa and won't even come out to speak to him.
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Imperium / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Imperium / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Truth in Fiction. By the end pretty much all the major players have suffered an unnatural death, including Cicero himself. The last survivor, Octavian, ends up becoming Rome's first emperor. The shrewd Atticus, who avoids politics, also makes it to the end alive.
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Imperium / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Imperium / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Pompey and Crassus both suffer one when faced with military disaster, Pompey as he watches his cavalry get routed by Caesar's veterans at Pharsalus, and Crassus after his son is killed in battle against the Parthians.
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Imperium / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
Imperium / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Servilia, who is married to someone else, is Caesar's long-term mistress. Some speculate that one of her motivations is to ensure her husband becomes consul.
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Imperium / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
Imperium / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: Tiro, himself a slave, buys Agathe's freedom in Lustrum. In Dictator, Cicero frees Tiro in recognition of his decades of service. It's an emotional moment for Tiro.
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Imperium / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Imperium / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Many characters, including Cicero, initially don't take Clodius seriously as a threat, assuming Lucullus will finish him off before he ever becomes a problem. This is a mistake.
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Imperium / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
Imperium / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: Cicero at one point claims that Caesar wants to smash the world and rebuild it in his own image, whereas most of the others are content to rule it. Caesar tells Cicero straight up that he won't settle for anything less than being the top man in Rome. For all that, Caesar's policies are designed to address genuine problems in Rome that many other characters are content to ignore. It's never entirely clear whether Caesar genuinely cares about the people, or whether they're just a stepping-stone on his route to the top.
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Imperium / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Imperium / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Played with. Tiro repeatedly points out that he's trying to be honest about Cicero, regardless of whether it shows him in the best light. He has no such restraint with a couple of the characters whom he dislikes.
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Imperium / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Imperium / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Early in the first novel Tiro refers to "imperium", the power of life and death, given to men by the state. And a "lustrum" is a Roman word for a period of five years; Lustrum deals with Cicero's consulship in 63 BC and the four years thereafter. Lots of title drops in the third book as Caesar takes up the title of "dictator".
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Imperium / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Imperium / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Tiro diagnoses Caesar as this after recounting how when Caesar heard of his chief engineer's death that he was relatively indifferent. Tiro remarks that he must have known the man for 10 years so he was appallingly cavalier and suggests that this "coldness of nature" was the reason for his success. Catilina. He is a hot tempered aristocrat fond of human sacrifice and perfectly willing to kill women to cover up his conspiracies. His goals are ill thought out and haphazard and rely heavily on others doing the planning (weapons from Pompey, support from Crassus and Caesar etc.). He is also noted as very brave, possibly reckless, in battle. Servilia is said to be as cold and ruthless as her lover Caesar. She is unmoved when informed of Caesar's death.
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Imperium / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Imperium / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Clodius and Catilina's plan for the former to prosecute the latter in a rigged trial that will benefit them both. Clodius is to mount a vigorous prosecution that will enhance his reputation (and avert accusations of a fix), but will fail because the jurors have already been bribed by Catilina, thus allowing him to escape the charges against him. However, Clodius produces so much evidence of Catilina's guilt that even the bribed jurors balk at letting him off. Ultimately, Catilina only gets a dishonorable discharge from the court and Clodius hastily flees the city.
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Imperium / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
Imperium / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: Crassus, for all his wealth, resents the military glory achieved by Pompey while his own biggest military success was defeating a slave revolt (slaves were not considered a Worthy Opponent by the Romans). It doesn't help that Pompey even claims the credit for that, as he technically ended the war by mopping up the last remnants of the slave army. It eventually leads to Crassus invading Parthia, where he is killed in battle.
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Imperium / int_19e13868	type	Ancient Rome
Imperium / int_19e13868	comment	Ancient Rome: Obviously. The story covers the final decades of the The Roman Republic and its transformation into The Roman Empire.
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Imperium / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Imperium / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: When Clodius, an old enemy of Cicero, is elected Tribune, he passes laws against Cicero and forces him to go into exile in Greece.
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Imperium / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Imperium / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: Antony, Octavian and Ledpius initiate one after they take power, targeting both their enemies and other men who just happen to be very rich. Cicero is among the victims.
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Imperium / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Imperium / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: This seems to happen to Clodius. After his exposure at the rites of the Good Goddess, he quickly turns from an unpredictable but harmless figure into the new face of the mob - which ultimately ends in gang war and his death. If he'd just apologised and left Rome when Cicero advised him to, he'd probably have got away with it. Caesar as well. Having achieved everything he could possibly want and defeated all his enemies, it promptly goes straight to his head. Declaring A God Am I and taking Cleopatra to Rome, appointing people to fixed roles in the senate for the next 5 years aggravating friend and foe alike and finally removing his bodyguards after a subtle quip from Cicero.
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Imperium / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Imperium / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Cicero and Tiro, to the point where Terentia complains that her husband spends more time in Tiro's company than hers. Even when Tiro, as a free man, has the opportunity to go his own way near the end of the story, he decides not to be parted from Cicero.
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Imperium / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Imperium / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The books are presented as Tiro's biography of his boss and the times that they lived in. Bonus points because we know that Tiro really did write a biography of Cicero, but it has long since been lost.
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Imperium / int_1f83dc62	type	Named Like My Name
Imperium / int_1f83dc62	comment	Named Like My Name: In revenge for Caesar's murder, the completely innocent Helvius Cinna is killed by a mob who mistake him for Cornelius Cinna, one of the assassins.
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Imperium / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
Imperium / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: After several years as dictator, Tiro thinks that Caesar began going mad, responding to criticism with more severity, making more irrational decisions, and viewing himself as a god.
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Imperium / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
Imperium / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: Milo's trial is attended by large numbers of Pompey's soldiers and supporters of Clodius, who intimidate the jurors and jeer at Cicero throughout. The verdict is a foregone conclusion, but Milo is actually guilty anyway.
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Imperium / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Imperium / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: After Pompey is murdered in Egypt, the Egyptians present Caesar with his head. He doesn't take it well. In Dictator, the Parthians put Crassus's son's head on a pike after they find his body at Carrhae. Gnaeus Pompey's head is put on display after Caesar crushes his rebellion in Spain. Helvius Cinna's head is put on a spike and paraded around by an angry mob looking to avenge Caesar—and he's the wrong Cinna, as Cornelius Cinna was one of Caesar's assassins. Cicero's severed head and hands are displayed on the rostra on Antony's orders.
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Imperium / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
Imperium / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: Caesar has one (and his nephew Octavian is the Real Life Trope Codifier for this), but after a jibe from Cicero he unwisely dismisses them shortly before his assassination.
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Imperium / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Imperium / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Tiro recalls that agents of The Empire later confiscated all the correspondence between Caesar and Cicero, looking to suppress anything that contradicted the official line that the late Dictator was a genius. However, they overlooked his copious shorthand notes, assuming them to be harmless gibberish, and he was able to refer to them when writing his biography of Cicero.
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Imperium / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Imperium / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Crassus pretty much defines this trope. Cato, who is personally rich and from a famous family, has much more freedom to oppose the likes of Pompey and Caesar than Cicero does; as a new man without great wealth, Cicero has to be careful to retain their goodwill.
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Imperium / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Imperium / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Crassus is affectionately called "Old Baldhead" by his soldiers. Caesar is also noted to be losing his hair.
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Imperium / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Imperium / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Lucullus, although he didn't deserve all of it.
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Imperium / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Imperium / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Cicero spends his life battling to save Roman liberty from various would-be tyrants. By the end of his career he's advocating the extra-judicial murder of Caesar's allies (like Mark Antony) and tells Brutus and Cassius that they should have just seized control of the Government when they had the chance.
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Imperium / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Imperium / int_2d4fa515	comment	Catilina and Crassus in Imperium and Lustrum.
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Imperium / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Imperium / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: Cicero invents out of whole cloth a desire by a group of Gauls to support Catilina's conspiracy, in order to find out just who amongst the Roman Senate supports Catilina and to get documentary proof. Pompey and his cronies invent an assassination plot against him to give them an excuse to suspend the consular elections (or rather, to stop Milo winning them).
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Imperium / int_303e9b7e	type	Blood on the Debate Floor
Imperium / int_303e9b7e	comment	Blood on the Debate Floor: The Trope Maker and most famous occurrence in history, as a gang of assassins stab Caesar to death during a meeting of the Senate. A shocked Tiro and Cicero are the last people left in the building along with Caesar's corpse after everyone runs for it.
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Imperium / int_35884ee7	type	Villainous Incest
Imperium / int_35884ee7	comment	Villainous Incest: Just about everyone thinks Clodius had sexual relations with his sister Clodia.
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Imperium / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Imperium / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Several people. Cicero himself accepts the end calmly and bares his neck for his murderer.
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Imperium / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Imperium / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Crassus is this to many of Cicero's adversaries. Cicero increasingly becomes convinced that Caesar is this to Crassus.
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Imperium / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Imperium / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Particularly in the first book, Tiro makes allusions to what (we know from history) will happen towards the end. In the second book, Tiro mentions that Caesar had a habit when he sensed danger of throwing his head back and almost literally smelling the air, then mentions that he saw Caesar do this just before Caesar was murdered.
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Imperium / int_3bd0924c	type	Jury and Witness Tampering
Imperium / int_3bd0924c	comment	The flip side of this is that Jury and Witness Tampering is also commonplace in Rome, and frequently used by the guilty to escape punishment for their misdeeds. Catilina bemoans how much it cost him to bribe the jury at his trial.
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Imperium / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
Imperium / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: Tiro acts as narrator, but has little role in advancing the plot. He's present at many important meetings, but only to take notes.
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Imperium / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Imperium / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Pompey, who doesn't lift a finger to help Cicero get elected consul after Cicero got Pompey his special command under the Lex Gabinia. And again when Pompey does nothing to help Cicero avoid exile, after Cicero has been arguing for Pompey's bills in the Senate. Popillius, whom Cicero saved from a murder charge at the start of the series, kills Cicero at the end of the last novel.
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Imperium / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Imperium / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Antony promises Caesar's assassins that he will speak with moderation at Caesar's funeral. Instead, he kicks off his speech with "We come to bid farewell to no tyrant! We come to bid farewell to a great man foully murdered..." and so forth. By the end the crowd is howling for the assassins' blood.
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Imperium / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Imperium / int_40c57041	comment	Then later played straight by Cicero, who, after his consulship is over, buys a gaudy, ostentatious house from Crassus at a cut-rate price that he still has to borrow to pay. This backfires on him spectacularly, as it makes him look like an aloof ivory-tower elite to the plebians, and leads to rumors that the house was given to him as a bribe, all of which is exactly what Crassus wanted to happen.
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Imperium / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Imperium / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For the series as a whole. Cicero is murdered, on Antony's orders, and Octavian eventually comes to power as Emperor Augustus. The Republic is destroyed. But Tiro gets his freedom and the little farm he yearned for, and he even marries Agathe, the pretty slave he met in the first book.
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Imperium / int_4130657a	type	Cincinnatus
Imperium / int_4130657a	comment	Cincinnatus: Invoked by Cicero when he advises Pompey to act like he doesn't want to be given the command to defeat the pirates.
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Imperium / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Imperium / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: Pompey, Cato, Catilina, Milo. Since neither Cicero nor Tiro were present at their deaths, they only learn about them days later.
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Imperium / int_447d9e50	type	Xanatos Speed Chess
Imperium / int_447d9e50	comment	Xanatos Speed Chess: Caesar plays this for much of the second novel.
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Imperium / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Imperium / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Cicero takes this option a few times, but it rarely works out well for him. On the eve of Cicero's exile, Caesar offers him a legateship, which will save him from Clodius by giving him legal immunity but will also make him, in Cicero's words, "Caesar's creature". He turns down the offer and spends the next year in exile. Brutus insists that the conspirators only kill Caesar, rather than also killing Caesar's allies like Antony and Lepidus and seizing control of the Government. Cicero laments his lack of foresight.
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Imperium / int_45b19b15	type	Villain Takes an Interest
Imperium / int_45b19b15	comment	Villain Takes an Interest: Crassus blows Cicero away in Imperium by approaching him and offering him support in achieving everything he wants if he'll just take a leading role in altering Pompey's bill (to something probably more objectively reasonable). Cicero rejects him, firstly because it would mean breaking with Pompey, but mostly because he doesn't want to be obliged to Crassus for any positions he later achieves.
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Imperium / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
Imperium / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: It would be much quicker to name the politicians who are not corrupt. Corruption is so endemic that being appointed governor of a province is basically an open invitation to spend the next few years enriching yourself at the locals' expense. Cicero actually causes a big stir when he renounces his province (but still accepts a cut of the proceeds from the guy who takes it instead). There's also the option of starting a war with a neighboring tribe and plundering them instead.
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Imperium / int_476a08e3	type	Women's Mysteries
Imperium / int_476a08e3	comment	Women's Mysteries: The rituals of the "Good Goddess" (Bona Dea), which are female-only, to the extent that Terentia wears a cloak buttoned up to her neck to prevent Cicero from seeing her robe. A great scandal occurs when Clodius sneaks into the ceremony Disguised in Drag and is caught.
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Imperium / int_47b21ca6	type	Stress Vomit
Imperium / int_47b21ca6	comment	Stress Vomit: Often happens to Cicero before giving an important speech.
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Imperium / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
Imperium / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Averted with Cicero, who makes a point of staying in a rather ordinary house so as not to antagonize the plebeians that support him. Then later played straight by Cicero, who, after his consulship is over, buys a gaudy, ostentatious house from Crassus at a cut-rate price that he still has to borrow to pay. This backfires on him spectacularly, as it makes him look like an aloof ivory-tower elite to the plebians, and leads to rumors that the house was given to him as a bribe, all of which is exactly what Crassus wanted to happen.
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Imperium / int_49334c8e	type	Coitus Uninterruptus
Imperium / int_49334c8e	comment	Coitus Uninterruptus: Tiro walking in on Caesar and Pompey's wife. She doesn't notice Tiro due to their position; Caesar does, but continues unabated.
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Imperium / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Imperium / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Lustrum has quite the Downer Ending, as Cicero goes into exile while Clodius's goons burn down his house and Caesar goes off to war.
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Imperium / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Imperium / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: At the beginning of Dictator Cicero is hiding out at Flaccus's house when they receive word that Clodius's new law makes harboring an exile a capital offense. Flaccus says he doesn't care, that he's not afraid of Clodius and Cicero can stay with him.
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Imperium / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Imperium / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Lucullus and Hortensius, at least at first. Pompey is painfully found out when battling Caesar in Greece. Clodia as well. She is defeated very easily once Cicero decides to retaliate.
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Imperium / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Imperium / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: The Real Life Trope Namer (via Shakespeare's Julius Caesar). Caesar's dying words are a reproach to Decimus Brutus: "even you?"
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Imperium / int_528e8166	type	High Priest
Imperium / int_528e8166	comment	High Priest: Caesar becomes the Roman equivalent, the Pontifex Maximus, during the second novel. It results in a big increase in his political clout.
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Imperium / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Imperium / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Popillius, the 15-year-old boy that Cicero gets off a murder rap at the beginning of Cicero's career, is the tribune that arrives to kill Cicero.
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Imperium / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Imperium / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Crassus, most of the time. Caesar is noted as having perfect manners, even when sentencing a man to death. Catilina is delightful company for anyone he thinks is on his side. Octavian, like his uncle, has impeccable manners and flatters people who he thinks will help him rise to the top.
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Imperium / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Imperium / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: Pompey defeats the feared Mediterranean pirates in just seven weeks. As such, some characters openly question whether they were really as big a threat as they were made out to be.
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Imperium / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Imperium / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Mostly averted as Harris sticks with history, but there is one notable moment. Cicero and Tiro are placed in the Senate for the assassination of Caesar. In Real Life, Cicero, who had largely withdrawn from public affairs during this time, was out of town on March 15, 44 BC, and Tiro, as a slave, wouldn't have been allowed inside the building.
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Imperium / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Imperium / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: A common punishment for Roman politicians who get convicted of bribery and other misdeeds (or just make an enemy of the wrong person) is to be exiled somewhere outside of Italy. This happens to Verres, Hybrida and, at the end of the second novel, Cicero himself. Cicero is also forced to spend a year as governor of Cilicia, one of Rome's easternmost provinces.
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Imperium / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
Imperium / int_57dda60c	comment	Brutus and co think that killing Caesar will restore the Republic. Instead, it just sets in motion events that culminate in Caesar's nephew/adopted son Octavian finally bringing down the Republic and becoming The Emperor.
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Imperium / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Imperium / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Cicero spends most of Imperium struggling against the aristocrats, but is eventually forced into an alliance with them to oppose Catilina. During Lustrum the nobles end up becoming his most reliable allies and some of the few friends he has left by the end. Cato, a long-standing opponent of Pompey, allies with him in order to contain what he sees as the bigger threat to the Republic, Caesar. Octavian and Antony team up to face Brutus and Cassius together and then divide the Roman world between themselves.
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Imperium / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Imperium / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Caesar is known to have a great admiration for Cicero, and frequently tries to bring him over to his side, makes a point of telling Cicero that none of their conflict is personal, treats him like a close friend and promises him personal protection if he needs it. Cicero isn't above claiming friendship with Caesar either, even to his face. This despite each of them also viewing the other as probably their most dangerous adversary.
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Imperium / int_5be685d4	type	Successful Sibling Syndrome
Imperium / int_5be685d4	comment	Successful Sibling Syndrome: Quintus has to deal with this. His years of pent-up resentment at playing second fiddle to his famous brother pour out during an argument and they don't speak for some time afterwards.
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Imperium / int_5c99b642	type	War for Fun and Profit
Imperium / int_5c99b642	comment	War for Fun and Profit: On their own authority, Caesar and Pompey both start or escalate wars with neighboring countries that benefit themselves enormously. Attempted with less success by Crassus and Hybrida.
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Imperium / int_5d3e7c6	type	Kangaroo Court
Imperium / int_5d3e7c6	comment	Kangaroo Court: Early in Lustrum Caesar arranges for the prosecution of an elderly senator for treason and gets himself appointed judge. He finds the Senator guilty and sentences him to be crucified without bothering to hear any witnesses. Rigging trials is a fairly regular occurrence, but this is blatant enough to shock even the harden practitioners. The flip side of this is that Jury and Witness Tampering is also commonplace in Rome, and frequently used by the guilty to escape punishment for their misdeeds. Catilina bemoans how much it cost him to bribe the jury at his trial.
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Imperium / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Imperium / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Caesar, who seems to have a thing for the wives of his fellow Roman elites. One of Caesar's mistresses remarks bitterly (after he throws her over) that Caesar likes to fuck consul's wives. Cicero is quite irritated when Caesar makes a veiled pass at Cicero's wife. Truth in Television, as Caesar’s sexual appetites were well-known, and a cause for scorn in a culture that viewed lust and promiscuity to be feminine attributes. Caesar was even nicknamed “Queen of Rome” on account of his prolific sex life.
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Imperium / int_60b4a128	type	The Last DJ
Imperium / int_60b4a128	comment	The Last DJ: Cato gains a lot of respect for his uncompromising old Republican ideals, but it doesn't mean anyone agrees with him or does him any favours. He notes correctly that giving special commands to people like Pompey opens the pathway to military dictatorship (see Day of the Jackboot above). When Pompey has his triumph, Cato observes, again correctly, that Rome is invading and conquering far-flung areas that Romans have no business in, and that this expansionism is undermining the Republic.
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Imperium / int_60ea2a89	type	Starter Villain
Imperium / int_60ea2a89	comment	Gaius Verres serves as the Starter Villain in Imperium whom Cicero makes his name by defeating in court.
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Imperium / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Imperium / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Hortensius, Cicero's longtime rival, winds up the first novel by throwing his support to Cicero and getting him elected consul. Catulus, a friend of Hortensius, who rips into Cicero for his low breeding in his first appearance, becomes one of his most trusted allies during Lustrum and arranges Cicero's unprecedented thanksgiving.
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Imperium / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
Imperium / int_629fa757	comment	Pompey (47) marries Julius Caesar's daughter Julia (14). Cicero is disgusted, and views it as Caesar prostituting his own child for the sake of maintaining an alliance, and yet Tiro notes that she seems to genuinely love Pompey and is happy with the whole arrangement.
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Imperium / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Imperium / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Catilina can be charming and charismatic but is also prone to bouts of violent rage in which he seems to forget where he is.
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Imperium / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Imperium / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Pompey sheds them when his wife Julia dies in childbirth.
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Imperium / int_65efc6dc	type	Appeal to Force
Imperium / int_65efc6dc	comment	Appeal to Force: When Pompey returns to Italy after conquering in the east, he makes a point of disbanding his army at the earliest opportunity and enters Rome as a civilian. Nevertheless, he reminds the Senate that he could easily have just marched on Rome and seized power. Facing certain prosecution and the end of his political career if he gives up his army and imperium, Caesar decides to fight a civil war to defend his rights.
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Imperium / int_6a582e34	type	Day of the Jackboot
Imperium / int_6a582e34	comment	He notes correctly that giving special commands to people like Pompey opens the pathway to military dictatorship (see Day of the Jackboot above). When Pompey has his triumph, Cato observes, again correctly, that Rome is invading and conquering far-flung areas that Romans have no business in, and that this expansionism is undermining the Republic.
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Imperium / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Imperium / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Cicero comes from the Latin word cicer meaning "chickpea", Cicero keeps a bowl of chickpeas in his tablinum.
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Imperium / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Imperium / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Lucius, disappointed by his cousin Cicero's ethical lapses, drinks hemlock. Suggested a couple of times as a "way out" for characters down on their luck. Apparently did happen to Catulus's father. Cato literally rips his own guts out after Caesar defeats him in Africa. Cornutus falls on his sword after the defection of the African legions robs the Senate of any hope of opposing Octavian. Tiro notes that Antony and Cleopatra both committed suicide after being defeated by Octavian.
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Imperium / int_7294b403	type	Altar Diplomacy
Imperium / int_7294b403	comment	Altar Diplomacy: Pompey marries Caesar's daughter Julia to seal their alliance. Later, after Julia dies, Pompey spurns an offer to marry another female relative of Caesar and instead marries a daughter of a prominent opponent of Caesar, a sign that their alliance is breaking down and Pompey is gravitating towards the optimates.
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Imperium / int_75f612a3	type	Simple Country Lawyer
Imperium / int_75f612a3	comment	Simple Country Lawyer: Crassus tries this in one Senate hearing. It works.
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Imperium / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Imperium / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Clodius is widely suspected of committing this with his sister Clodia. Clodia's bitter ex-husband Lucullus testifies to this in court.
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Imperium / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
Imperium / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: After spending most of his career trying to be the voice of reason and prevent civil war, during the last year of his career Cicero is vehemently opposing any compromise with Antony and insisting he must be utterly destroyed.
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Imperium / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Imperium / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Two stubborn elderly senators both insist on standing for the vacant post of Pontifex Maximus and refuse to come to an agreement whereby one will stand aside so the other can win. As Cicero predicted, this splits the vote and allows Caesar to narrowly win the election. Tiro reflects that had Caesar lost, having borrowed massive amounts of money for his campaign, his political career would probably have ended there. If only both consuls hadn't been killed in the battles with Antony.
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Imperium / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
Imperium / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Catilina is bankrupt; Caesar is so far in debt he has to flee the city.
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Imperium / int_7ac5c1de	type	Unishment
Imperium / int_7ac5c1de	comment	Unishment: After Milo is found guilty and exiled, Cicero sends him a copy of the speech he intended to give at his trial. Milo replies that he is glad that Cicero never read it:
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Imperium / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Imperium / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Cicero gives two memorable ones—at Verres' trial in Imperium and his speech in the Senate in Lustrum where he confronts Catilina. Both are based on historical record. Cicero is also on the receiving end of one from his brother Quintus after he abandons the Senate's cause following their defeat at Pharsalus.
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Imperium / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Imperium / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Antonius Hybrida, Cicero's colleague as consul. Hybrida drinks wine straight, which is a big deal in ancient Rome, where almost everybody cut wine with water.
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Imperium / int_7ef7e1cd	type	Every Man Has His Price
Imperium / int_7ef7e1cd	comment	Every Man Has His Price: Much of the first book's plot involves Cicero trying to stop Crassus bribing various members of government to block his legislation, while turning down bribes himself. Things get a bit more complicated in the second book. Octavian also takes this approach. The Senate's African legion defects to him after he offers to double their pay.
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Imperium / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Imperium / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Cicero helps get Pompey's lex gabinia passed. He later acknowledges that this was one of the milestones in the demise of the republic, as it set a precedent for one man being given supreme power in the state. Later on, he also supports and empowers Octavian, which further hastens the republic's fall. Brutus and co think that killing Caesar will restore the Republic. Instead, it just sets in motion events that culminate in Caesar's nephew/adopted son Octavian finally bringing down the Republic and becoming The Emperor.
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Imperium / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Imperium / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Even Clodius is amused by some of Cicero's cracks at his expense. Caesar roars with laughter when told one of Cicero's barbs about him.
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Imperium / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Imperium / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Cicero is this quite a bit in the third book, even calling himself a Cassandra. He tells Pompey that Caesar will be super-pissed at him for spurning a marriage alliance; Pompey doesn't listen. When word comes of a peace offer from Caesar, Cicero says Pompey should have taken it, which strikes Tiro as unduly pessimistic. After Caesar's army retreats into the interior of Greece, Cicero recommends that Pompey's army break off contact and head west to retake Rome itself rather than follow. Pompey ignores Cicero again, heads into the interior to face Caesar, and is destroyed at Pharsalus.
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Imperium / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Imperium / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Hortensius, an important player in the first and second novels, disappears midway through the third.
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Imperium / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Imperium / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television, as Caesar’s sexual appetites were well-known, and a cause for scorn in a culture that viewed lust and promiscuity to be feminine attributes. Caesar was even nicknamed “Queen of Rome” on account of his prolific sex life.
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Imperium / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Imperium / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Sometimes it's difficult to tell who the heroes are meant to be. This is particularly noted in Lustrum when Cicero takes rather dubious methods in his consular year: bribing people, rigging ballots and later taking bribes. He's not as above corruption as people think he is. Matters do not improve afterwards; his defence of Hybridus and attempt to organize a coup against Caesar are painfully ironic echoes of Cicero's past triumphs. By the time of Dictator he's despairing that Brutus and Cassius didn't just murder all their enemies. During the civil war, Pompey's supporters, who are ostensibly defending liberty and the republic, openly talk of their plans to massacre Caesar's supporters, his troops and anyone else who just didn't support them with enough vigor. Cicero is appalled by this and opines that their side winning might actually be worse than them losing. Caesar by contrast is actually more lenient and reasonable, often spares the lives of men who fought against him, and repeatedly offers a negotiated peace.
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Imperium / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Imperium / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Verres starts out at this, bulletproof behind his influential friends and good name, while the only people prepared to speak against him are foreigners. Finding a way to expose him is what really launches Cicero's career.
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Imperium / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
Imperium / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: In Roman triumphs, the victorious general typically parades all the wealth he plundered during the conflict. Pompey, Caesar and Lucullus all do it.
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Imperium / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
Imperium / int_8976acda	comment	Civil War: There are two in Dictator: The first is between Caesar and the Senate, the second between Caesar's heirs (who initially fight each other) and then between them and the Republic's forces.
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Imperium / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Imperium / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Caesar is stabbed 23 times by his assassins. In their haste to kill him, the conspirators inadvertently stab each other.
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Imperium / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Imperium / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Tiro reads from Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars, notes that Caesar refers to himself in the third person, and says "He writes of himself with wonderful detachment." Pompey often refers to himself in the third person during conversations ("Pompey the great does not forget his friends!")
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Imperium / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Imperium / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Cicero makes a big mistake when he buys a huge (and ruinously expensive) house from Crassus at a knockdown price. To help pay for it, he takes a large bribe for defending one of the Catiline conspirators in court and also accepts a portion of the money that his co-consul Hybrida has extorted from his province, leaving him vulnerable to charges of corruption by his enemies. Moreover, it also makes him look like one of the ivory tower aristocrats he used to rail against, alienating his core supporters. Cicero repeatedly bemoans the failure of Caesar's assassins to take out Antony as well, or to take any other measure to restore republican government. Instead they simply kill Caesar and call it a day, assuming everything will go back to normal. In the final novel, Cicero throws his support behind Octavian, completely failing to take him seriously as a threat, instead regarding him as Just a Kid who can be used to defeat Antony and then discarded ("he can be raised, praised and erased"). Cicero is warned by others not to trust him but doesn't realize his mistake until it is too late.
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Imperium / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Imperium / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Tiro has no sympathy when the Catiline conspirators are executed, remembering the young slave boy they butchered and sacrificed.
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Imperium / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Imperium / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Clodia.
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Imperium / int_91a2039b	type	I Am the Noun
Imperium / int_91a2039b	comment	I Am the Noun: After becoming dictator, Caesar tells Cicero: "I am the vote of the Senate".
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Imperium / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Imperium / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A drunk Antony vomits in the Senate house before going on a harangue against Cicero.
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Imperium / int_95324d09	type	Sexy Coat Flashing
Imperium / int_95324d09	comment	Sexy Coat Flashing: When trying to seduce Cicero into defending her brother, Clodia drops her cloak and shows she has nothing on underneath.
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Imperium / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Imperium / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Largely averted due to the story's Black-and-Gray Morality. But the aristocratic leaders are some of the more honourable characters and pretty much the only ones to stand by Cicero after his fall from grace at the end of the second book. Played absolutely straight with Sergius Catilina and Clodius Pulcher.
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Imperium / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Imperium / int_970c790a	comment	Cicero regards Antony as the Big Bad in the second half of Dictator, but it's really Octavian.
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Imperium / int_97522514	type	Heel–Face Revolving Door
Imperium / int_97522514	comment	Heel–Face Revolving Door: Caelius Rufus, who starts out as one of Crassus's supporters, then supports Cicero after studying law with him, then throws his lot in with Clodius and leads the prosecution of Hybrida which is part of the campaign against Cicero. In Dictator they become allies again when Cicero defends Rufus in court.
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Imperium / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Imperium / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: King Mithridates takes this option when on the verge of defeat. An inversion by Cato, who chooses to kill himself rather than be spared by Caesar.
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Imperium / int_9b34ee31	type	Marriage of Convenience
Imperium / int_9b34ee31	comment	Marriage of Convenience: Cicero, who is from a prosperous but not rich family, twice marries women from wealthy families. The first goes fairly well, the second less so.
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Imperium / int_9bb8ac92	type	Stealing the Credit
Imperium / int_9bb8ac92	comment	Stealing the Credit: Pompey has a habit of taking the credit for military victories that were largely won by other commanders. He claims to have defeated Spartacus, when in actuality it was Crassus who did that (Pompey's army just mopped up the survivors of the battle afterwards). Tiro notes that the defeat of Mithridates owed as much to Lucullus as Pompey; Pompey just managed to get appointed to the command when Rome was on the verge of victory.
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Imperium / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Imperium / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Several characters- Clodius, Rufus, Caesar, even Cicero himself, at the start of the first book.
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Imperium / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Imperium / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: Gaius Trebonius's mutilated body is put on public display by Dolabella, with a message that Trebonius is the first of Caesar's assassins to die.
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Imperium / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Imperium / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Caesar to varying degrees in all three books, but especially Dictator when he fights a war against the Senate.
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Imperium / int_a01f88a7	type	General Failure
Imperium / int_a01f88a7	comment	General Failure: Crassus goes "against the advice of more experienced officers", according to Cassius, makes several tactical errors, and leads his army to disastrous defeat against the Parthians at Carrhae. Despite his many earlier successes, Pompey for his part completely botches the civil war, being forced to evacuate Rome, losing Spain, failing to anticipate Caesar's crossing the Adriatic, following Caesar into the mountains when he could have retaken Rome, and then getting thrashed at Pharsalus when he had Caesar outnumbered. Hybrida manages to lose an entire army while governor of Macedonia. He insists that it was "only the infantry".
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Imperium / int_a51fecb4	type	Did You Actually Believe...?
Imperium / int_a51fecb4	comment	Did You Actually Believe...?: Unlike everyone else. Octavian has absolutely no reason to give Cicero anything once he gets power. He lets Cicero believe for a moment he will be allowed to return to government. But only a moment.
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Imperium / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Imperium / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: In Imperium Tiro comments on how he and the other household slaves are happy to belong to "so eminent a man" as Cicero. Averted later, however, as Tiro yearns for his own country farm and wishes Cicero would free him.
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Imperium / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Imperium / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Octavius, later Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later Augustus, never does face any comeuppance for betraying his word and overthrowing the Roman Republic, not to mention throwing Cicero to the wolves.
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Imperium / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Imperium / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Celer, as Tiro notes in his earliest appearance, is a lot cleverer than he seems. Pompey thinks he is cleverer than he seems, although it's not entirely clear whether he is.
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Imperium / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Imperium / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Inverted with Cato's temper tantrums. Cicero jokes that he's always a perfect stoic until things go wrong. Yet after the disaster at Pharsalus he's the only one who remains perfectly calm and controlled.
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Imperium / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Imperium / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Harris mentions in the front matter to the novels that he attempted to stick to history but deviated from history whenever the demands of fiction required.
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Imperium / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Imperium / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Antony delivers a major one at Caesar's funeral, goading the mob to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Caesar's assassins. Averted in a big way in the third book. Cicero and the Senate recall the legions from Africa as their last-ditch defense against Octavian and Antony. Cicero gives a speech to the troops about Roman liberty and laws and freedoms. Tiro, watching the soldiers, observes that it has no effect on them whatsoever. The next day the African legions go over to Octavian, and the game is up. There's a small amount of War Is Hell to explain this. Tiro notes the soldiers look half dead already and their indifference is portrayed sympathetically as a natural result of constant fighting both for and against the Republic.
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Imperium / int_abe4d7b	type	Blue Blood
Imperium / int_abe4d7b	comment	Blue Blood: The aristocrats take themselves and their position very seriously. Played with in the case of Caesar. He considers his family the most ancient in Rome and the direct descendants of the goddess Venus, and as such despises even the other aristocrats as inferior upstarts and supports populist policies. Tiro suggests that Caesar's popularity with the mob is because he looks down on everyone, and is far too superior to be much of a snob. Inverted in Lustrum with Clodius, one of Caesar's relatives, who gets himself officially made a plebeian so he can become a tribune. He then starts to screw with Cicero every chance he gets.
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Imperium / int_ad0439be	type	The Gambler
Imperium / int_ad0439be	comment	The Gambler: Caesar, politically and militarily rather than games or racing. At one point he stakes everything on being elected Pontifex Maximus, knowing that he'll be ruined if he fails. Cicero notes that whenever one of Caesar's gambles doesn't pay off, he just doubles the stakes and plays again.
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Imperium / int_ad331757	type	Emergency Authority
Imperium / int_ad331757	comment	Emergency Authority: A few times Pompey conspires to be given this in order to deal with some perceived threat to Rome. The Lex Gabinia grants him near-unlimited powers to deal with the Mediterranean pirates. He is also appointed sole consul after Caesar invades Italy. As Cato points out, the trend of giving supreme commands to one man is actually undermining the Republic and its tradition of power-sharing.
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Imperium / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Imperium / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: The Senate's armies under the command of the consuls and in alliance with Octavian inflict a heavy defeat on Antony at Mutina. It becomes a pyrrhic victory for Cicero and the Republic when both consuls die of their injuries in the aftermath. Both consular armies are subsequently taken over by Octavian, and things suddenly get much bleaker for the Republic.
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Imperium / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
Imperium / int_b0fb2427	comment	Bread and Circuses: Political candidates are obliged to put on lavish Gladiator Games and feasts for the plebs during elections. A standout is Crassus pledging to spend a tenth of his entire fortune providing three months of free food for every citizen. When he becomes tribune, Clodius introduces Rome's first free bread dole.
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Imperium / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
Imperium / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Cicero and Terentia's marriage is implied to be this. At one point Cicero mentions that they no longer even share a bed. There are also hints that she is having an affair with Cicero's steward Philotimus.
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Imperium / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Imperium / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: Caesar weeps when the Egyptians hand him Pompey's head on a plate.
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Imperium / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
Imperium / int_b4de919d	comment	Make an Example of Them: After crushing Spartacus' slave revolt, Crassus has 6000 captured slaves crucified along the Via Appia and left to rot, which appalls Cicero and Tiro.
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Imperium / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
Imperium / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Cicero has no qualms about defending obviously guilty men in court, for bribes or political gain, although he draws the line at monsters like Sergius Catilina. His Courtroom Antics make him famous in Rome and lead to his consulship.
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Imperium / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Imperium / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Lustrum was released as Conspirata in the US and France and as Titan in Germany.
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Imperium / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Imperium / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Cicero becomes wildly egotistical after his consulship, comparing himself to Romulus and Pompey, attempting to write an epic poem about himself, and telling everyone how awesome he is. Tiro concludes that Cicero is doing this because he is wracked with guilt over the execution of five senators that were part of Catilina's conspiracy. Quintus complains that his own career and interests have always been sidetracked for Cicero's convenience.
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Imperium / int_bbdf5f31	type	Everyone Is Related
Imperium / int_bbdf5f31	comment	Everyone Is Related: Most of the major aristocratic characters are related to each other by marriage (or extramarital affairs) at least.
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Imperium / int_bcb4f1f1	type	You Just Told Me
Imperium / int_bcb4f1f1	comment	You Just Told Me: Tiro notices that the weapons captured from Mithridates by Pompey's army are the same weapons found in the possession of the Catiline conspirators. They posit that Pompey was secretly arming the rebels so he would have an excuse to return to Italy with his army and defeat them. Later, Cicero casually mentions to Pompey that the conspirators were hiding weapons in the city. Pompey retorts "I know nothing about any weapons!"
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Imperium / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Imperium / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Lucius Lucullus. Bonus points because his full name is Lucius Licinius Lucullus.
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Imperium / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Imperium / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Pompey upon taking up the authority bestowed on him by the Lex Gabinia; see Historical In-Joke above. The Lex Gabinia, concentrating as it did so much power in one man, is commonly regarded as a milestone in the collapse of the Roman Republic.
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Imperium / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Imperium / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: For a time in 43 BC, it seems everything has worked out—with Cicero calling the shots in Rome as acting consul, Antony is defeated at Mutina and the Senate has won. Then everything unravels: consuls Hirtius and Pansa are killed at Mutina, Antony escapes, Lepidus's legions go over to Antony, and then Octavian joins Antony as well, and the Republic is destroyed.
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Imperium / int_c3c3c608	type	Evil Former Friend
Imperium / int_c3c3c608	comment	Clodius in Lustrum and Dictator.
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Imperium / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Imperium / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: Caesar offers Cicero a chance to become the fourth member of the Triumvirate. Cicero turns him down, and from then on is fighting a losing battle.
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Imperium / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Imperium / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Cicero rejects a possible marriage with Pompey's daughter, who is said to look a lot like her father.
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Imperium / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
Imperium / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Lustrum opens with the discovery of a boy slave who appears to have been butchered in a ritualistic human sacrifice. Cicero is appalled. It turns out that Catilina did it in order to bind together his fellow conspirators.
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Imperium / int_c70907c7	type	The Butcher
Imperium / int_c70907c7	comment	The Butcher: Mentioned as an old nickname of Pompey (and his father before him) although we don't see much evidence of it in the books themselves.
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Imperium / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Imperium / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Cassius is "pale and thin", according to Caesar. This is a shout-out to Julius Caesar and Caesar's description of Cassius's "lean and hungry look." In Lustrum, a dead body is found in the river, and the investigation starts to unravel a much wider conspiracy. This is also the scenario that opens another Harris novel, Fatherland.
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Imperium / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Imperium / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Crassus.
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Imperium / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Imperium / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: As opposed to most other of the leading politicians of the era, Cicero is not a military man. He admits in Dictator that he is "too squeamish" to even watch others fight, much less fight himself. This sometimes makes him look bad and earns him a tongue-lashing from Quintus after Quintus, who unlike his brother fought at Pharsalus, learns that Cicero is giving up. See What the Hell, Hero? below.
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Imperium / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Imperium / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Metellus Celer.
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Imperium / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Imperium / int_ceec4df5	comment	Antony delivers a major one at Caesar's funeral, goading the mob to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Caesar's assassins.
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Imperium / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
Imperium / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: Cicero, who is from a modestly wealthy family, raises eyebrows when he acquires a vastly expensive Big Fancy House on the Palatine after the end of his consulship. His enemies note, correctly, that he could only have afforded it through bribery.
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Imperium / int_d0a48e7	type	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...
Imperium / int_d0a48e7	comment	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...: Pompey making his Cincinnatus speech, which has been written down for him by Cicero. It actually works.
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Imperium / int_d1ebedfb	type	Armchair Military
Imperium / int_d1ebedfb	comment	Armchair Military: Cicero, who by his own admission has no taste for soldiering and little experience of it, gets called out on this whenever he talks about military affairs. It's why Pompey ignores his (actually pretty sound) advice during the civil war, like retaking Rome instead of pursuing Caesar into the mountains. Quintus, who does have military experience, also chews him out after Cicero mocks Pompey and the other senators for continuing a losing cause in the wake of their defeat by Caesar at Pharsalus.
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Imperium / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Imperium / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: In Dictator Pompey's wife Julia, Caesar's only child, dies in childbirth. It's an important moment as it breaks the alliance between them and sets Rome on the path to civil war. This also happens to Cicero's beloved daughter Tullia.
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Imperium / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Imperium / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Quintus launches into a righteously pissed speech at Cicero after finding out that Cicero has abandoned the cause of the Senate against Caesar, leaving Quintus hanging. They're estranged for some time, but eventually reconcile.
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Imperium / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Imperium / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Most of Caesar's actions throughout Lustrum amount to this, from covering his co-consul in human excrement to prevent him from vetoing a bill to having Cato dragged bodily from the Senate during an attempted filibuster. Crassus betrays Catilina to Cicero and almost without pausing for breath asks for the glory of the military command against him.
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Imperium / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Imperium / int_d52d28b6	comment	Years later, Cicero himself marries a 15-year-old girl when he's 60, solely because she's from a rich family and he's in desperate need of money. Predictably, it's a complete disaster - unlike Pompey he's extremely uncomfortable with the arrangement, mostly ignores his young wife or tries to avoid her, and ends up quickly divorcing her largely because he finds the whole situation so painfully awkward.
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Imperium / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Imperium / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Crassus; Caesar.
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Imperium / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
Imperium / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Harris does make a bit of a habit of depicting the Roman Senate as essentially the British House of Commons with everyone in a toga. Phrases such as “back bencher”, “members opposite”, “bobbing” (the practice in the House of Commons of MPs quickly standing up and sitting back down again to signal that they want to be called on to speak in debates), and “the House divided” all crop up. Harris, as a former political journalist, has a lot of experience of and knowledge about how the House of Commons works.
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Imperium / int_d6d26e96	type	Just a Kid
Imperium / int_d6d26e96	comment	Just a Kid: Octavian is still a teenager when he first appears. It's one of the reasons why everyone, and Cicero in particular, underestimates him.
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Imperium / int_daba0e87	type	Acquired Poison Immunity
Imperium / int_daba0e87	comment	Acquired Poison Immunity: Mithridates, King of Pontus and longstanding enemy of Rome, reportedly spent years doing this. Tiro relates that when on the verge of defeat by Pompey, Mithridates tried to poison himself but it didn't work, so instead he had to order an underling to kill him.
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Imperium / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Imperium / int_dc1761bd	comment	Caesar as well. Having achieved everything he could possibly want and defeated all his enemies, it promptly goes straight to his head. Declaring A God Am I and taking Cleopatra to Rome, appointing people to fixed roles in the senate for the next 5 years aggravating friend and foe alike and finally removing his bodyguards after a subtle quip from Cicero.
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Imperium / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Imperium / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In Dictator, Tiro, now freed, goes to a bathhouse. He randomly runs into Agathe, the pretty slave whose freedom he bought at the end of Lustrum, now running the bathhouse. Eventually he marries her.
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Imperium / int_dd9fba61	type	A Rare Sentence
Imperium / int_dd9fba61	comment	A Rare Sentence: To the amazement of everyone, Cato supports appointing Pompey as sole consul, calling it "a sensible compromise."
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Imperium / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Imperium / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: On the first page Tiro says of Cicero that "it is of power and the man that I sing." This is a play on the opening line of Vergil's The Aeneid, "Of arms and the man I sing" (Arma virumque cano). When Pompey gives his acceptance speech after the Lex Gabinia bestows upon him enormous power to defeat the pirates, he says "I shall now again put on that uniform once so dear and so familiar to me, the sacred red cloak of a Roman commander in the field, and I shall not take it off again until victory in this war is won—or I shall not survive the outcome!" Minus the bit about the sacred red cloak, this is nearly word-for-word a quote from Adolf Hitler's speech to the Reichstag upon the start of World War II, Sept. 1, 1939. After Clodia is humiliated at Rufus's trial in Dictator, Tiro comments that she then receded into the obscurity which she deserved. The trial of Rufus is in fact the last mention of Clodia in the historical record. Cicero announces Antony's defeat at Mutina to the people and says "This is your victory!" The people shout back "No, it is your victory!" This is a lift from Winston Churchill addressing the London crowds on V-E day in 1945.
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Imperium / int_e0f75086	type	Good Republic, Evil Empire
Imperium / int_e0f75086	comment	Good Republic, Evil Empire: One of the themes of the series is the Roman Republic's gradual degradation, culminating in the rise of the Roman Empire. But this is not played as straight as it appears. The Republic of Cicero's time already possesses a vast empire, and is violent, corrupt, badly governed and dominated by a small group of wealthy men.
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Imperium / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
Imperium / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Half the cast. YMMV on whether they were actually as bad as they appear.
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Imperium / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Imperium / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: Caesar likes to spare the lives of his opponents (many other characters are not so lenient). Not only does it allow him to present himself as moderate and peaceable, but it also screws with his opponents:
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Imperium / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Imperium / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: The young Octavian's rapid ascent from obscure relation of Caesar to major powerbroker catches everyone by surprise. Cicero in particular underestimates his ruthlessness and talent for political intrigue. This eventually leads to Cicero's destruction. Clodius goes from a fairly harmless playboy to rabble-rousing demagogue and one of Cicero's most implacable enemies.
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Imperium / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Imperium / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward:
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Imperium / int_e3def52f	type	Egopolis
Imperium / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: While conquering in the east, Pompey names three cities Pompeiopolis.
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Imperium / int_e529d5c3	type	Torches and Pitchforks
Imperium / int_e529d5c3	comment	Torches and Pitchforks: A torch-wielding mob goes on a rampage after Antony whips them into a fury with his speech at Caesar's funeral.
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Imperium / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Imperium / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Caesar pardons most of the leading senators who fought against him in the civil war (by contrast, had the Senate won, they planned to massacre Caesar's supporters). He ends up being murdered by the very men he pardoned. One of the assassins was even named in Caesar's will.
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Imperium / int_ed874c14	type	Self-Made Man
Imperium / int_ed874c14	comment	Self-Made Man: Cicero is this, which both makes him attractive to the plebs and earns him the resentment of the Blue Blood aristocrats who wield so much power in Rome.
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Imperium / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Imperium / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Unavoidably averted due to the Roman habit of recycling the same small group of names. It isn't obvious because characters are usually referred to by their more distinctive nomen (second name) or cognomen (third name), but Cicero, Crassus, Antony, Cato, Rufus, Lepidus and Brutus all share the same first name: Marcus. Caesar, Octavian, Verres, Hybrida and Cassius all have the first name Gaius. Hortensius, Catulus, Celer and Cicero's brother and nephew are all named Quintus. Cicero's son is also named Marcus Tullius Cicero. The story also has two men named Gaius Julius Caesar. One is the conqueror of Gaul who becomes dictator, and the other is his great nephew Octavian, who after being adopted in Caesar's will, also adopts his uncle's full name. He is still mainly referred to as Octavian though. Invoked when Tiro says he will refer to Decimus Brutus as Decimus to avoid confusing him with his better known distant cousin, Marcus Junius Brutus. Helvius Cinna is Torn Apart by the Mob looking to avenge Caesar's death when they mistake him for one of the assassins (also named Cinna).
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Imperium / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Imperium / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Lucullus, although Tiro believes this is more a distraction from depression than anything else. Crassus thinks nothing of spending one-tenth of his entire fortune on three months of free food for every citizen.
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Imperium / int_f142296a	type	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card
Imperium / int_f142296a	comment	"Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Cicero thinks he has one of these throughout the second book, thanks to his connections with Pompey and Caesar and his public popularity. He's wrong. Cicero thinks he has another of these when Octavian pledges to protect him. He's wrong again.
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Imperium / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Imperium / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Hortensius is supposedly the king of this trope.
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Imperium / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Imperium / int_f1d6144a	comment	There's a small amount of War Is Hell to explain this. Tiro notes the soldiers look half dead already and their indifference is portrayed sympathetically as a natural result of constant fighting both for and against the Republic.
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Imperium / int_f432c6bf	type	Glad I Thought of It
Imperium / int_f432c6bf	comment	Glad I Thought of It: Pompey is said to do this a lot. At one point after giving a speech he asks if Cicero liked his choice of words, apparently forgetting that Cicero wrote the speech for him.
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Imperium / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Imperium / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Catilina and the conspirators do this. After Catilina gives a rousing speech they charge the Senatorial army. Catilina is found surrounded by a group of soldiers that he killed.
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Imperium / int_f9636192	type	Prophecies Are Always Right
Imperium / int_f9636192	comment	Prophecies Are Always Right: The Sybil's prophecy that Rome would be ruled by three, then two, then one and then none comes true.
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Imperium / int_fa9cd4db	type	Democracy Is Bad
Imperium / int_fa9cd4db	comment	Pompey and his cronies invent an assassination plot against him to give them an excuse to suspend the consular elections (or rather, to stop Milo winning them).
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Imperium / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Imperium / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: While going through the charges Hybrida is facing for his many crimes and screw-ups as governor of Macedonia, Cicero notes that he is accused of losing an army. Hybrida corrects him: "only the infantry."
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Imperium / int_fde807fe	type	Torn Apart by the Mob
Imperium / int_fde807fe	comment	Helvius Cinna is Torn Apart by the Mob looking to avenge Caesar's death when they mistake him for one of the assassins (also named Cinna).
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Imperium / int_ff41780	type	Young Future Famous People
Imperium / int_ff41780	comment	Young Future Famous People: Mark Antony is introduced as an 18-year-old hellraiser who hangs out with Clodius. The second time Antony pops up, two years later, all Tiro can remember is how many pimples Antony had. Cicero meets an 11-year-old Cleopatra. She is visiting Rome with her father who is seeking Roman support in a power struggle at home.
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Imperium / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Imperium / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Catilina congratulates Cicero on the birth of his son in such a way that, for a moment, he's almost likable.
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Imperium / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Imperium / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Harris wants you to know that the books are meticulously researched, although tries to work this in naturally. Occasionally he slips up. Caesar's brilliance as a general is on full display during the civil war, constantly outmaneuvering his opponents and retaining the initiative. Finally, he routs Pompey's army at Pharsalus despite being outnumbered and on unfavorable ground.
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