"Brutus, quia reges eiecit, consul primus factus est; Hic, quia consules eiecit, rex postremo factus est."
— Julius Caesar

January 1, 1970

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Brutus was elected consul, when he sent the kings away; Caesar sent the consuls packing, Caesar is our king today. — Note left on a statue of Caesar in Rome, prior to the Ides of March, as reported in Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars, as translated by Robert Graves (1957), Divus Iulius ¶ 80