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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

63: Render Unto Caesar

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Caesar's ride that changed the course of Western Civilization.

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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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