Let them hate, provided they fear.

I attended high school when Latin was considered College Prep. In other words, long ago.

They also offered Greek.

I've thought of him as being reminiscent of Domitian: petty, paranoid and dangerous, without Caligula's blatant insanity.

Putting cold water on this Emperor-bashing, could I interject that Suetonius was writing propaganda against the Caesar family and was pretty inaccurate - ditto the writers and historians of the Tudor Court in England, writing about the royal dynasty that came before them and was usurped by Henry VII.

An analogy today would be Alex Jones writing a biography of Hillary Clinton, or Stephen Miller writing about immigration to the US in the last 150 years. Maybe entertaining but not purely objective.

Trump is more similar to one of the many African Dictators since their independence - petty, greedy, stupid and malevolent, and he would be happy to see the US descend to their xchaotic level, as long as he and his pathetic coterie came out on top.

I was shocked when these stories hit me for the first time, but in another 2,000 years at least people will see through TV or whatever the real facts. The fact that we are still shocked is proof that a series of bare-faced lies will last through the centuries whereas the truth will not last through the morning newscasts.

Don't get me started on General Pershing and his pigs-blood bullets....