63: Render Unto Caesar
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 4 July 2017
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Caesar's ride that changed the course of Western Civilization.
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| 0:00.0 | So, will it be skiing? |
| 0:03.0 | Or Christmas markets on a city break? |
| 0:06.0 | Skiing? Or a city break? |
| 0:09.0 | Some problems are good problems to have. |
| 0:12.0 | Especially with flights this winter from 29.99 one-way |
| 0:17.0 | and package holidays from £159 per person. |
| 0:21.0 | Get the king at EasyJet.com. |
| 0:24.0 | Selected dates, holidays at all protected based on two adults for three nights, |
| 0:28.0 | restrictions and season C's apply. |
| 0:30.0 | This is the way I heard it. |
| 0:38.0 | When Caesar entered the forum on that fateful day, |
| 0:41.0 | he didn't look like the regal statesman captured in bronze statues, marble busts |
| 0:46.0 | and millions of silver coins. |
| 0:48.0 | He looked like a refugee from hell. |
| 0:51.0 | His uniform was soaked with sweat and spattered with mud. |
| 0:54.0 | His eyes were wild and bulging. His jaw was wrapped in a bloody rag. |
| 0:59.0 | And his breath came in great, weising gasps. |
| 1:02.0 | In short, Caesar looked like a dead man walking. |
| 1:06.0 | Which, of course, he was. |
| 1:09.0 | It's odd though how little is written about the asthma and the cancer that plagued the famous general. |
| 1:15.0 | Historians agree both maladies left Caesar in constant misery until his brutal death. |
| 1:21.0 | And yet, nowhere on the statues, busts and coins that bear his image |
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