Julius Caesar: A Humorous Anecdote

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Published on July 6, 2021 10:00:16 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCbb3FosCJE

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A funny story about everyone's favorite salad, Julius Caesar.

I FUCKING misremembered Cato's sister's fucking name so that joke is just WRONG. Good thing nobody gives a shit.

Source: http://classics.mit.edu/Plutarch/m_brutus.html
The story is told that, when the great question of the conspiracy of Catiline, which had like to have been the destruction of the commonwealth, was debated in the senate, Cato and Caesar were both standing up, contending together on the decision to be come to; at which time a little note was delivered to Caesar from without, which he took and read silently to himself. Upon this, Cato cried out aloud, and accused Caesar of holding correspondence with and receiving letters from the enemies of the commonwealth; and when many other senators exclaimed against it, Caesar delivered the note as he had received it to Cato, who reading it found it to be a love-letter from his own sister Servilia, and threw it back again to Caesar with the words, "Keep it, you drunkard," and returned to the subject of the debate. So public and notorious was Servilia's love to Caesar.