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Who designed the coin – Aristarchus himself, completely ignorant of the
democratic principles, or there was a prompt and stipulation from the outside?!
Caesar tested public opinion by staging the scene with himself being offered
a diadem. The sign of total disappointment was indeed a bad omen
and he demonstratively rejected the offer (Plut., Caes. 61).
Was Pompejus doing the same a bit earlier – checking the general political
sympathies by making his client to act this way?
Maybe that was the case. With M. Licinius Crassus dead, and Caesar in
Gaul making his name, Pompejus was the only big man in Rome. And, after
all, he was an illustrious and ambitious general.
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