Optimates and populares aren’t real. It was bad history created by people who wanted to apply modern political parties to Rome. Cicero used the words one in one speech and never again. Most of what we see when we look at Roman politics indicates that there were parties and instead there were constantly shifting interests, not hard and fast ideologies
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Optimates and populares aren’t real. It was bad history created by people who wanted to apply modern political parties to Rome. Cicero used the words one in one speech and never again. Most of what we see when we look at Roman politics indicates that there were parties and instead there were constantly shifting interests, not hard and fast ideologies