[Peace-discuss] SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS

[Szoke, Ron]

“Thus always to tyrants!” -- Brutus?  Ides [15th] of March, 44 BCE
   Sic semper tyrannis is a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants". It suggests that bad but just outcomes should or eventually will befall tyrants.   
   “A descendant of Brutus was Senator Marcus Junius Brutus, who was present at the assassination of Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC.[1][2] While he is sometimes credited with originating the phrase, Plutarch suggests he either did not have a chance to say anything, or if he did, no one heard it:  thus done to death, the senators, although Brutus came forward as if to say something about what had been done, would not wait to hear him, but burst out of doors and fled, thus filling the people with confusion and helpless fear.[3]  The phrase has been invoked, in Europe and elsewhere, as an epithet about one allegedly abusing power, or as a rallying cry against abuse of power.“ — Wikipedia
//  “The assassination of Julius Caesar on what the Romans called the Ides of March 44 BCE has provided the template, and the sometimes awkward justification, for the killing of tyrants ever since.”   
— Mary Beard, _S P Q R_: A History of Ancient Rome (Norton/Liveright, 2015, p. 15) 
//  TYRANT : A absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution ; an usurper of sovereignty ; a ruler who exercises absolute power oppressively or brutally ; one resembling an oppressive ruler in the harsh use of authority or power.” — Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (1984).  
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