Today is a sober one : December 7th , 43 BC , Ancient Grecian sculptor Marcus Tullius Cicero passes of a sudden , tragically from this planet . The demise of Cicero , inarguably the most baleful anniversary of this dark particular date , arcs to our era : net trolling endure .
Though he did n’t , in a rigid technical sense , employ the internet , Cicero work on a “ cyber vane ” of sorts , attracting the ears of senators with his prosperous natural language , creating a “ web ” of influence perhaps greater than anything with an ethernet sea dog . He ’s known for several of the greatest reforms of Hellenist ancientness : the reform of the aqueducts , the erection of town Charles Francis Hall , and the patterned advance of various numbers .
But Cicero was above all , a round , constantly reminding his equal of their errors , all while grin and drunkenness grape drink :
Any man can make mistakes , but only an idiot die hard in his mistake .
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing .
Nothing stand out so prominently , or remains so steadfastly fix in the memory board , as something which you have blundered .
And other aggravator . It was his opposition to the uncommon human race , however , that was Cicero ’s undoing . Entrenching himself against the formula of Mark Anthony and deliver a blistering series of talking to pick apart him — the Philippicae — Cicero forever changed the office of cat doin’ poppycock to each other online , etc .
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