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He's evil too, tho. Fuckin' optimate slumlord piece of shit (media.piefed.social)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 43 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Explanation: Cicero was a politician in the Late Roman Republic, whose writings have remained widely read into the modern day for their skilled use of rhetoric and the Latin language.

... he was also an insufferable spineless weasel who loved to praise himself. And a literal slumlord.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 4 months ago

A Roman senator was fifteen minutes late to the Senate on a day Cicero was giving a speech. He sat down and quietly asked the senator next to him what Cicero was talking about. The senator replied, "I don't know - he hadn't got to the verb yet!"

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Except for the skilled use of language, we know his ideological descendant.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Who was the lad that told Alexander to get out of his sun? Well known for all sorts of public indecency. He sounds fairly insufferable too.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Diogenes of Sinope. He wasn't entirely insufferable, though, because at least he was funny.

[–] nagaram@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago

Being funny is the cure to being annoying