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Updated: May 4, 2025

While Pompey has on his side all honest people Cato, Brutus, Cicero; Cæsar, more popular than he, has as his followers only degenerates Antony, a libertine and drunkard; Curio, a bankrupt; Clelius, a madman; Dolabella, who made his wife die of grief and who wanted to annul all debts; and, above all, Catiline and Clodius.

Robert Hunter - Violence and the Labor Movement

While Pompeius the Sober has all honest people on his side, his talented contemporaries, Cicero, Cæsar, and Brutus have as followers all the baser sort, men like Clodius and Cataline, libertines and drunkards like Antonius, the bankrupt Curio, the mad Clelius, Dolabella the spendthrift, who wanted to repudiate all his debts by passing a law.

Ernst Viktor Zenker - Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory