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For one thing, stop posting anime you sorry excuse of a Roman.

>>9185193
Romans were huge fine art connoisseurs.

>>9185139
Invest in basic infrastructure and grow your population, raid and pillage your enemies and sack their cities as you conquer them and tax the clergy. That should give you enough income to go through with your plan as long as you manage to keep the various factions in your country from growing too powerful and overthrowing you.

I have heard by a senator friend of mine that the chain link industries are going to boom soon due to increased military spending and soon to be new influx of slaves.
When there's a slave fever don't enslave, sell chains. I suggest you invest all you have in chain links.

>>9185241
Chinese cartoons are not fine art

>>9185139

Invest in oratory skills

In 75 BCE, 25-year-old Julius Caesar was sailing the Aegean Sea when he was kidnapped by Cilician pirates. According to Plutarch, when the pirates asked for a ransom of 20 talents of silver (approximately 620 kg of silver, or $600,000 in today's silver values), Caesar laughed in their faces. They didn't know who they had captured, he said, and demanded that they ask for 50 (1550 kg of silver), because 20 talents was simply not enough.

The pirates, of course, agreed, and word was sent, his family and associates went off to gather the silver, a task that took 38 days. during this time nearly alone with the pirates—only two servants and a friend remained with him—Caesar refused to cower. Instead, he treated the pirates as if they were his subordinates. He demanded they not talk whenever he decided to sleep. He spent most of his time composing and reciting poetry for the pirates and writing speeches. He would then recite the works to the pirates. Caesar also played various games with the pirates and participated in their exercises, generally acting as if he wasn’t a prisoner, but rather, their leader. The pirates quickly grew to respect and like him and allowed him the freedom to more or less do as he pleased on their ships.

>>9185241
>Some delusional dweeb posting anime thinks he's a Roman

Mediocre.

>>9185899


While Caesar was friendly with the pirates, he didn’t appreciate being held captive. He told the pirates that, after his ransom was paid, he would hunt them down and have them crucified. Once he was freed, he made good on his promise: Despite being a private citizen, Caesar managed to quickly raise a small fleet which he took back to the island where he had been held captive. Apparently the pirates hadn’t taken his threats seriously, because they were still there when he arrived. A short fight ensued which Cesar won. Whereupon he captured the pirates and took back his 50 talents of silver, along with all their possessions.

He locked the pirates up at the prison at Pergamon, and then traveled to meet the proconsul of Asia, Marcus Junius, to petition to have the pirates executed. The proconsul refused: He wanted to sell the pirates as slaves and take the spoils for himself. Undeterred, Caesar traveled back to Pergamon where the Cilician pirates were being held and ordered that they be crucified on his own authority. Before they went through that ordeal, however, Caesar showed some leniency for their time together—he cut their throats.

>>9185942
>he cut their throats
sissy

>>9185899
>>9185942
We need men like this again

>>9185927
Romans were mostly gay back then se he probably is

>>9186103
>not enjoying some good ol' homosex once in a while

don't be such a faggot anon

>>9186103
False