Common errors about Antiquity

[Jona Lendering]

During the time that the two consuls sat in the Senate, they both sat on curule chairs, iirc. Caesar just had one of them removed when he became dictator. That probably wasn't unique, as there had been other dictators in time of need before.

Yes, but notice that Caesar received the Senate, seated on the platform of the Temple of Venus Genetrix on the Forum of Caesar, and refused to stand up when his guests came in. If Caesar did not realize that this would be interpreted as royal behavior, he was a fool; I think it was a calculated act. Had the conscript fathers accepted it, he might have set further steps.