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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nick Zynko, post: 4562025, member: 110450&quot;]Incredible topic and excellent posts by all. How does one measure evil? Total evil Deeds over time or single worst acts over motive?&nbsp; &nbsp; As was said above and written into history, Julius Caesar was responsible for the death of a million people in his military and political life.&nbsp; But my money is on Caesar Augustus. He had many heinous acts of cruelty attached to his name, IE, Proscription of the richest and most prominent people during the 2nd Triumvirate, eliminating all of their enemies and most importantly because they needed the money! He had Cesarean strangled to remove the threat against his claim to his name among many others family murders.&nbsp;&nbsp; After 40 years of power I am sure he purged as many of the history books as he could to control the narrative of his legacy as did many of the emperors in their time.&nbsp; Reading Cicero&#039;s orations, Suetonius&#039;s masterwork, Fragments of Livy, Pliny and Plutarch gives me the impression Octavian -Divus Caesar Augustus had to be totally and consciously evil to achieve and maintain the reins of absolute power -at any cost.&nbsp; No mental illness, no reservations about what had to be done to achieve his goals. He was a historic and original Evil political genius. He was able to gloss over his acts with a balance of good deeds and projecting absolute fear into everyone around him. He created an allusion of who he was and the people loved him regardless of how he came to power.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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