Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Cinaedus Romulus

Do we really question Caesar's tyranny?!
The man whose pet offered him a crown?
Only when we booed did he thrice turn it down,
A cover-up for his staged regality.

The Republic stained by his wanton member
A diplomatic mission to bed Nicomedes,
Transacting deals with that Queen on her knees.
These illicit affairs, do you refuse to remember?

Betraying his wife for the bed of Servilia,
Betraying the Great Pompey by sleeping with Mucia.
Such foul deeds have past been punished:
The perverse Tarquins were expelled and banished.
Now banish Caesar's memory to his grave,
and uphold your liberator, Brutus the brave!

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