08-18-2007, 05:37 AM
I vaguely recall another ditty sung about Caesar. This and the one about Nicomedes were supposedly sung lustily by the troops during his Gallic Triumph - this sort of derogatory song was traditionally allowed at Triumphs, and behind it lay the serious religious tradition of averting a jealous God's anger. In similar vein a slave stood behind the red-face- painted Triumphator(not the melodramtic blood in HBO's "Rome" )in his chariot saying; "Lord, remember thou art but a man !"
"Home we bring our bald whoremonger !
Romans lock your wives away !
All the bags of Gold you sent him,
Went his Gallic Tarts to pay ! "
(Caesar had a terrible reputation for 'womanising', but famously applied double standards - 'Caesar's wife must be above suspicion' ! )
"Home we bring our bald whoremonger !
Romans lock your wives away !
All the bags of Gold you sent him,
Went his Gallic Tarts to pay ! "
(Caesar had a terrible reputation for 'womanising', but famously applied double standards - 'Caesar's wife must be above suspicion' ! )
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
