#443 – Gregory Aldrete: The Roman Empire – Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome

7525.289 - 7545.483 Gregory Aldrete

And so hundreds are massacred there, including Cicero, the great order, is prescribed and killed. There's moments when he's really cruel. One slave once gets him angry and he has him tortured in a particularly sort of cruel manner. So, I mean, on the one hand, he had this clemency. On the other hand, he could be really hard-nosed and hard-edged. I think he was a very calculating person.