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From: [personal profile] selenak
He considers him ultra competent, mind, but also as the guy who eased the Romans into tyranny and responsible for finishing the Senate off for good as a political force.

Welp, I guess that answers my question about Diocletian. :P


Fritz, btw, is much impressed by Augustus' smartness of easing the Romans into tyranny while selling himself as first among equals. Though he doesn't fanboy him, either.

re: how did the Montesquieu volume pubished, I don't want to tell you anything wrong, and I'm currently on the road, so it'll have to wait until Thursday so I can check to be sure when I'm reunited with my copy.

Incidentally, re: Diocletian, I thought of you when listening to the Caesar! audio series about the Roman emperors. Diocletian isn't in it, but Maximinian's daughter Fausta is as a main character in the Constantine episode.
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