This is factually incorrect. He was a proconsul in command, fully authorized by the Senate.
You're probably referring to the fact that some of his political opponents in the Senate tried to score political points criticizing his war in Gaul. There was no real question of the legality then or now. False legal claims like this were standard practice and everyone took them for the partisan maneuvering they obviously were.
> Sure. Notice the size of their armies in the link I provided vs. the count of dead people and enslaved people. These were civilians.
These claims are all incredibly speculative. We actually have no real idea how many people (civilians or otherwise) died in these wars. Caesar himself is the primary source and we know for a fact that he tended to wildly exaggerate his numbers.
> Agreed. Both sides were terrible in that conflict. That doesn't make him a non-dictator because he won over another dictator wannabe.
> The two facts I provided were: he was a dictator and he was violent. Those are indisputable objective historic facts.
Another indisputable fact: he wasn't violent as dictator.
This is factually incorrect. He was a proconsul in command, fully authorized by the Senate.
You're probably referring to the fact that some of his political opponents in the Senate tried to score political points criticizing his war in Gaul. There was no real question of the legality then or now. False legal claims like this were standard practice and everyone took them for the partisan maneuvering they obviously were.
> Sure. Notice the size of their armies in the link I provided vs. the count of dead people and enslaved people. These were civilians.
These claims are all incredibly speculative. We actually have no real idea how many people (civilians or otherwise) died in these wars. Caesar himself is the primary source and we know for a fact that he tended to wildly exaggerate his numbers.
> Agreed. Both sides were terrible in that conflict. That doesn't make him a non-dictator because he won over another dictator wannabe.
> The two facts I provided were: he was a dictator and he was violent. Those are indisputable objective historic facts.
Another indisputable fact: he wasn't violent as dictator.