Error

“I want us to concentrate on Flavius’ face when Pompey’s name is mentioned. Where are Flavius’ thoughts when Marullus recalls the Roman masses cheering Pompey so loudly that the Tiber ‘trembled underneath her banks’, as Shakespeare puts it? Most likely he thinks Pompey was a massive mistake. That anyone hailed by the plebs is the spawn of folly. How Sulla was a mistake before Pompey, and Cinna was a mistake before Sulla, and Gaius Marius before Cinna. And how Julius Caesar was an unmitigated error, the worst of all. The only unforgivable mistake. One that can only be repaired by way of a conspiracy and the most heinous of crimes.”