#he also needlessly escalated the conflicts during caesar's consulship & helped start the civil war

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Bibulus is so thoroughly pigeonholed into my brain as "the guy Caesar's buddies dumped poop on," that for twenty years it did not occur to me that he had a full name. He was just Bibulus of Ye Olde Poope Buckette. I got through the entire Masters of Rome series and still didn't remember his full name, although now I was vaguely aware that he had one. Wasn't until I started this blog and started tagging him alongside all the other Romans that I finally looked it up on Wikipedia.

It's rather fitting, though, for a guy who spent most of his career whining about Caesar overshadowing him, and then when he and Caesar were co-consuls refused to actually do his job.

#he also needlessly escalated the conflicts during caesar's consulship & helped start the civil war #he deserves to be remembered for the poop bucket #jlrrt speaks #marcus calpurnius bibulus #just roman memes