... , a teenager by the time Cato the Younger had committed suicide, refusing to accept Caesar's clementia, and an adult approaching middle age by the time of Octavian's victory over Antony and Cleopatra. Therefore, Livy was in a good position to obtain primary source information regarding the major key players of the demise of the Republic. Even figures like Gaius Marius and Lucius Cornelius ... ...

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... without exception refused their assistance to Antony yet the men who were being kept for gladiatorial combats, who were among the most despised, showed the utmost zeal in [Antony and Cleopatra's] behalf and fought most bravely "7 Despite Dio's antipathy and dislike towards gladiators on the whole it is apparent that he did, in fact, believe that some gladiators and, by extension ... ...

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