Word: aemilius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General MacArthur's new command in Australia; and he had something else up his sleeve. He had found one of those sly, semi-scholarly parallels on which he loves to impale his more annoying critics, like marshmallows on a toasting fork. In 168 B.C. the Consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus, about to lead the Romans to victory over the Macedonians, had made a speech to his people. For years the speech had hung on War Department doors, gathering dust and flyspecks. Franklin Roosevelt brushed the flyspecks off Lucius Aemilius, and quoted...
Thus the President impaled his armchair critics on the parallel of Lucius Aemilius Paulus, dead 2,101 years. The toasting was well-timed. But still unsolved, by Lucius Aemilius Paulus or by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was one great problem of a democracy in wartime: Where does legitimate criticism end and subversive criticism begin...
...Texas; the ancient Romans to the Boers; the Roman electoral body to the cosmopolitan demagogy of the United States; Rome itself to London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Milan; and Lucullus to Napoleon. He talks about capitalism, parliamentarism, imperialism, feminism . . . clubs, meetings, high life. . . . Cato is a landlord; M. Aemilius Scaurus a self-made man; Caesar a socialist leader, a Tammany boss...