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Dean of the University of Zootopia.\n\nWritten by Dan 1966 as a prelude to “Lupis Gloria Romani” by Ademi and Dan 1966[/center][/b]\n\n[b][center]Part 8: The Death of Cesar[/center][/b]\n\n All told, it took two years for Cesar to finally get back to Rome and in that time, Williamus Graylus had stuck firm to implementing the reforms Cesar had tasked him to despite repeated attempts by members of the Senate and the high social classes to bribe and influence him into turning against Cesar for his own dreams and ambitions. He survive two attempts to kill him, one intercepted by his own younger brother Alexander as written by the Roman scribe Scinectaus…\n\n[i] “Williamus Graylus was making way through the public forum when an assassin, cloaked in his four legged form as a family pet who had slipped from their master, ran through the forum being chased by the screams of his handler. When Williamus grabbed the leash to restrain the animal, the assassin took on his two legged form and prepared to drop a killing blow on the Tribune. The younger Graylus brother Alexander, a playful cub who always carried a wooden gladius, reacted swiftly. Knocking the killing blade from the assassin’s paw while his faithful slave, a young goat, tackled the offending wolf off his feet. The young Alexander then proceeding to beat the assassin to death.”[/i] \n\n Williamus instituted the prey rationing reforms, the reforms to clamp down on vote buying, influence peddling and corruption and strove to clean both the Senate and the higher classes of those who would resist Cesar’s dictates. Williamus was the public face of Cesar, his father was the figure behind the curtain as both the purse and the silent persuasion. Cesar’s enemies chose to lay low and bide their time till his return.\n\n Cesar returned as expected with his new wife and his then toddler son in tow yet secretly so. While he might have been able to swoon his own close at hand legions to accept the stunningly beautiful fox queen of Minotia, it would be far different when it came to a populace born, bred and educated to see every fox as a mortal enemy of Rome.\n\n The city held a great triumph parade for Cesar, a spontaneous entry made mostly from the plebes who saw Cesar as a liberator from what they felt was the ever growing lack of concern and corrupted nature of the patricians and the Senate. The writer Scinectaus described the speech Cesar gave upon his entry into the public forum…\n\n[i] Cesar stood on the steps of the portico of the temple to the Lupin moon gawd and declared an end to the years of tumult that plagued our dear city. He pardoned his enemies, called us to remember our sacred bonds of pack and paw and promised to hold himself to limited rule until the Republic was again on sure and stable grounding. He adamantly refused calls of monarchy, denied a crown of laurals thrust into the noble Williamus’s paws and affirmed solidly that the law forever bound the high and the low equally and low to those who would alter its’ sacred princepts.The day ended in great joy.”[/i]\n\n Joy perhaps for some, not for all. The next event is clouded in fog, Cesar going to the temple of the Oracle to offer a sacrifice and seek her guidance on the course for Rome once his task was complete. Three days later the Oracle emerged in a flowing gown of white before a throng and pronounced a shocking revelation concerning the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The Writer Scinectarus…\n\n[i] The holy oracle emerged in a trance before the throng and declared that all which had been handed down concerning the treachery of the fox Genifax. As the oracle related the visions, she declared that the gawds were testing the brothers and they failed this test by becoming angry and turning to violence and murder and that Rome would forever be cursed with the blood of the innocent she had wrongly convicted through Romulus’s attempt to hide his crime. The only remedy lay in clemency and forgiveness and she urged the throng to end the persecution of the foxes and restore their rights as fellow predators. Whatever the Oracle declared was meant to be taken as holy law.[/i]\n\n While the plebes in the majority accepted what the Oracle had declared. The nobility detected a rat. It was well known that Cesar had spent hours in the temple when all one usually did was bring their questions in script and spend less than a few minutes. Given that Cesar was in Minotia for some time...many of the nobles were putting two plus two together and coming up with stink. When Cesar announced the Oracle’s words and declared he would follow her pronouncement to grant clemecy to all foxes within the empire? Stink turned to nose curling. Then…..Cesar produced Cassiopia and their son Cessai. Nose curling turned to teeth snarling rage.\n\n While he didn’t openly declare Cassiopia his wife, the resemblance of her toddler cub to being part wolf and part fox couldn’t be hidden. One thing to say foxes should be given clemency...another for a wolf to father a filthy hybrid bastard from a fox slut. That was unpardonable. The last insult that struck the match to the wick was when Cesar proposed an “equal alliance” with Minotia. Rome was equal to no one, certainly not equal to filthy foxes, I’m speaking as to Roman superior sentiments.\n\n The nobles and the members of the Senate who’d been scheming to take Cesar down hinted on a plan to expose Cesar as another monarchical tyrant in waiting plotting with his fox bitch to put their hybrid little bastard on the throne. To do this, the Senate invited Cesar to the Senate house where by unanimous vote they wished to declare Cesar “Dictotatus Eternia” or Dictator for Life which they claimed was a life title that would allow Cesar to continue to advise those counsels that would come after him and his mandates would carry weight, yet Cesar refused the title at first until the Senate debated and decided to put the title on Cesar as a “Name only honorific.” Which gave Cesar a permanent seat in the Senate chamber. Cesar accepted the honorific which sealed his fate.\n\n The other thing which further sealed Cesar's doom was the turning of Haroldius Augustinian Graylus to the conspiracy because of Cesar’s “putrid” and unforgivable crime of mating with a fox. Yet the elder Graylus hid his secret actions from his older son while grooming his younger son Alexander to be solidly at his father’s side, believing Williamus would naturally stay with his little brother. Not so...Alexander wasn’t stupid. Playing the clueless cub interested more in play and his slave, Alexander was feeding his older brother information.\n\n Yet the highest level of conspirators themselves were not stupid. There was a plot afoot to murder Cesar by the nobles….just not the time, the place or the stage on which it would happen.\n\n Three years after Cesar returned from Minotia. The nobles tried one last time to turn Williamus to their side or engineer his death by requesting he appeal to Cesar and turn him from the course of actions he had set himself too. Yet Williamus remained fiercely loyal. The night before his death….Cesar talked long into the night with Williamus. Possibly throwing back and forth contingency plans should some move be made against Cesar or his wife and child.\n\n The next day. The Senate was to meet in triumvirate session to bestow upon Cesar the honorary title of Dictator for Life. Absent from the occasion was Cassiopia, her son Cessai and Williamus. As Cesar took his place in a chair reserved for him, the President of the Senate read the parchment of proclamation. When he finished and as he was handing the parchment to Cesar’s paws….the Senate President suddenly snatched Cesar’s wrists and proclaimed…\n\n [i]“Traitors deserve no mercy…..nor do their whores!”[/i]\n\n Senators and nobles sprang from their chairs and plunged their daggers into the struggling and screaming Cesar. The last as he staggered and stumbled over the blood soaked floor was the senior Haroldius Augustinian Graylus. Cesar cried out as he collapsed into Harolius’s arms….\n\n [i]“You two my beloved patron?”[/i]\n\n Haroldius snickered back….”Fear not...your whore will be well serviced before she dies. As for your bastard freak? He might take a while. Farewell treasonous wretch. My son Williamus will see well to your slut.”\n\n Haroldius stabbed Cesar right in the heart and ripped it in two before kicking the body away and joining the angry crowd of senators and nobles in doing all sort of vile abuses upon it. They then threw it from the portico of the Senate house and cried aloud….”Thus this be for tyrants and traitors of Rome!”\n\n[b]Next: The rise of the Cesars, the death of Republica.[/b]","writing_bbcode_parsed":"
A simplistic review of Zootopian History with Focus on the Lupinian Roman Empire as written by Doctor Emeritus Lulow Mandemus. Dean of the University of Zootopia.
Written by Dan 1966 as a prelude to “Lupis Gloria Romani” by Ademi and Dan 1966
Part 8: The Death of Cesar
All told, it took two years for Cesar to finally get back to Rome and in that time, Williamus Graylus had stuck firm to implementing the reforms Cesar had tasked him to despite repeated attempts by members of the Senate and the high social classes to bribe and influence him into turning against Cesar for his own dreams and ambitions. He survive two attempts to kill him, one intercepted by his own younger brother Alexander as written by the Roman scribe Scinectaus…
“Williamus Graylus was making way through the public forum when an assassin, cloaked in his four legged form as a family pet who had slipped from their master, ran through the forum being chased by the screams of his handler. When Williamus grabbed the leash to restrain the animal, the assassin took on his two legged form and prepared to drop a killing blow on the Tribune. The younger Graylus brother Alexander, a playful cub who always carried a wooden gladius, reacted swiftly. Knocking the killing blade from the assassin’s paw while his faithful slave, a young goat, tackled the offending wolf off his feet. The young Alexander then proceeding to beat the assassin to death.”
Williamus instituted the prey rationing reforms, the reforms to clamp down on vote buying, influence peddling and corruption and strove to clean both the Senate and the higher classes of those who would resist Cesar’s dictates. Williamus was the public face of Cesar, his father was the figure behind the curtain as both the purse and the silent persuasion. Cesar’s enemies chose to lay low and bide their time till his return.
Cesar returned as expected with his new wife and his then toddler son in tow yet secretly so. While he might have been able to swoon his own close at hand legions to accept the stunningly beautiful fox queen of Minotia, it would be far different when it came to a populace born, bred and educated to see every fox as a mortal enemy of Rome.
The city held a great triumph parade for Cesar, a spontaneous entry made mostly from the plebes who saw Cesar as a liberator from what they felt was the ever growing lack of concern and corrupted nature of the patricians and the Senate. The writer Scinectaus described the speech Cesar gave upon his entry into the public forum…
Cesar stood on the steps of the portico of the temple to the Lupin moon gawd and declared an end to the years of tumult that plagued our dear city. He pardoned his enemies, called us to remember our sacred bonds of pack and paw and promised to hold himself to limited rule until the Republic was again on sure and stable grounding. He adamantly refused calls of monarchy, denied a crown of laurals thrust into the noble Williamus’s paws and affirmed solidly that the law forever bound the high and the low equally and low to those who would alter its’ sacred princepts.The day ended in great joy.”
Joy perhaps for some, not for all. The next event is clouded in fog, Cesar going to the temple of the Oracle to offer a sacrifice and seek her guidance on the course for Rome once his task was complete. Three days later the Oracle emerged in a flowing gown of white before a throng and pronounced a shocking revelation concerning the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus. The Writer Scinectarus…
The holy oracle emerged in a trance before the throng and declared that all which had been handed down concerning the treachery of the fox Genifax. As the oracle related the visions, she declared that the gawds were testing the brothers and they failed this test by becoming angry and turning to violence and murder and that Rome would forever be cursed with the blood of the innocent she had wrongly convicted through Romulus’s attempt to hide his crime. The only remedy lay in clemency and forgiveness and she urged the throng to end the persecution of the foxes and restore their rights as fellow predators. Whatever the Oracle declared was meant to be taken as holy law.
While the plebes in the majority accepted what the Oracle had declared. The nobility detected a rat. It was well known that Cesar had spent hours in the temple when all one usually did was bring their questions in script and spend less than a few minutes. Given that Cesar was in Minotia for some time...many of the nobles were putting two plus two together and coming up with stink. When Cesar announced the Oracle’s words and declared he would follow her pronouncement to grant clemecy to all foxes within the empire? Stink turned to nose curling. Then…..Cesar produced Cassiopia and their son Cessai. Nose curling turned to teeth snarling rage.
While he didn’t openly declare Cassiopia his wife, the resemblance of her toddler cub to being part wolf and part fox couldn’t be hidden. One thing to say foxes should be given clemency...another for a wolf to father a filthy hybrid bastard from a fox slut. That was unpardonable. The last insult that struck the match to the wick was when Cesar proposed an “equal alliance” with Minotia. Rome was equal to no one, certainly not equal to filthy foxes, I’m speaking as to Roman superior sentiments.
The nobles and the members of the Senate who’d been scheming to take Cesar down hinted on a plan to expose Cesar as another monarchical tyrant in waiting plotting with his fox bitch to put their hybrid little bastard on the throne. To do this, the Senate invited Cesar to the Senate house where by unanimous vote they wished to declare Cesar “Dictotatus Eternia” or Dictator for Life which they claimed was a life title that would allow Cesar to continue to advise those counsels that would come after him and his mandates would carry weight, yet Cesar refused the title at first until the Senate debated and decided to put the title on Cesar as a “Name only honorific.” Which gave Cesar a permanent seat in the Senate chamber. Cesar accepted the honorific which sealed his fate.
The other thing which further sealed Cesar's doom was the turning of Haroldius Augustinian Graylus to the conspiracy because of Cesar’s “putrid” and unforgivable crime of mating with a fox. Yet the elder Graylus hid his secret actions from his older son while grooming his younger son Alexander to be solidly at his father’s side, believing Williamus would naturally stay with his little brother. Not so...Alexander wasn’t stupid. Playing the clueless cub interested more in play and his slave, Alexander was feeding his older brother information.
Yet the highest level of conspirators themselves were not stupid. There was a plot afoot to murder Cesar by the nobles….just not the time, the place or the stage on which it would happen.
Three years after Cesar returned from Minotia. The nobles tried one last time to turn Williamus to their side or engineer his death by requesting he appeal to Cesar and turn him from the course of actions he had set himself too. Yet Williamus remained fiercely loyal. The night before his death….Cesar talked long into the night with Williamus. Possibly throwing back and forth contingency plans should some move be made against Cesar or his wife and child.
The next day. The Senate was to meet in triumvirate session to bestow upon Cesar the honorary title of Dictator for Life. Absent from the occasion was Cassiopia, her son Cessai and Williamus. As Cesar took his place in a chair reserved for him, the President of the Senate read the parchment of proclamation. When he finished and as he was handing the parchment to Cesar’s paws….the Senate President suddenly snatched Cesar’s wrists and proclaimed…
“Traitors deserve no mercy…..nor do their whores!”
Senators and nobles sprang from their chairs and plunged their daggers into the struggling and screaming Cesar. The last as he staggered and stumbled over the blood soaked floor was the senior Haroldius Augustinian Graylus. Cesar cried out as he collapsed into Harolius’s arms….
“You two my beloved patron?”
Haroldius snickered back….”Fear not...your whore will be well serviced before she dies. As for your bastard freak? He might take a while. Farewell treasonous wretch. My son Williamus will see well to your slut.”
Haroldius stabbed Cesar right in the heart and ripped it in two before kicking the body away and joining the angry crowd of senators and nobles in doing all sort of vile abuses upon it. They then threw it from the portico of the Senate house and cried aloud….”Thus this be for tyrants and traitors of Rome!”
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