04-12-2012, 12:18 AM
That's areal GOOD question.
On one hand J.C. was comitting high treason as soon as he crossed the Rubicon WITH his troops, which he rightfully commanded in Gallia(s) only.
IIRC the military situation rather quick rendered formal condemnation by the full senate
impossible. J.C.s military "overweight" in the italian mainland, the conscriptions that followed ... in no time there were not many senators left to effectively run a treasonry trial against him. No legal action possible -- "illegal"/"out-of-institutional" action to do away with this unlawful state of the republic may have been called "self-defence".
On the other hand: a republic that has corrupted their own "mos majorum" during its recent history , the course of the confrontation of optimates vs. populares, especially its dealing with the Gracchus family, Marianus vs. Sulla incl. the "age of conscriptions" beginning with Sulla and running well into the first triumvirate and J.C.s "domination", was not having the stronger arguments on it's side.
The republic had long lost it's innocence and we may see that it may well have lost
it's right of existence, as it's institutions had failed to work properly a long time before.
Just my 2c. Open to discussion. Like I said: an iteresting thread. :mrgreen:
Greez
Simplex
On one hand J.C. was comitting high treason as soon as he crossed the Rubicon WITH his troops, which he rightfully commanded in Gallia(s) only.
IIRC the military situation rather quick rendered formal condemnation by the full senate
impossible. J.C.s military "overweight" in the italian mainland, the conscriptions that followed ... in no time there were not many senators left to effectively run a treasonry trial against him. No legal action possible -- "illegal"/"out-of-institutional" action to do away with this unlawful state of the republic may have been called "self-defence".
On the other hand: a republic that has corrupted their own "mos majorum" during its recent history , the course of the confrontation of optimates vs. populares, especially its dealing with the Gracchus family, Marianus vs. Sulla incl. the "age of conscriptions" beginning with Sulla and running well into the first triumvirate and J.C.s "domination", was not having the stronger arguments on it's side.
The republic had long lost it's innocence and we may see that it may well have lost
it's right of existence, as it's institutions had failed to work properly a long time before.
Just my 2c. Open to discussion. Like I said: an iteresting thread. :mrgreen:
Greez
Simplex
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