Then you have Augustus who was always mysteriously ill before a big fight. Interestingly Napoleon also played sick whenever his superiors tried to make him fight a fight he didn’t want. He was also very interested in Roman and Greek history.
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Augustus was also not the kind of person you would want to lead a battle. A lot of his success was dependent on trusting competent generals and being an effective politician.
You’re right, I’ve just always found it funny that he was able to get away with playing sick every time something dangerous came up.
Being assassinated in your quarters by your own soldiers counts as dying in battle?
Julian?
That was a political event.
"Let no one mourn! The death of but one soldier, however high-born, is no great loss to the republic!"