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Because for a time, you get to be emperor of Rome. We still know their names, and their faces, thousands of years past. 80% seems decent odds for that kind of i
by vermilingua 6y ago
Because for a time, you get to be emperor of Rome. We still know their names, and their faces, thousands of years past. 80% seems decent odds for that kind of immortal fame.
- regularfry 6y agoWhat they knew at the time is that they would be gods. They also knew that they would become almost unimaginably rich.
- usrusr 6y agoAnd compared to their successors in the title/office of pontifex maximus in certain later centuries, their annualized mortality rate wasn't even that bad.