On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:03 PM, M J wrote: > > > From: Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> > Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 19:41:25 -0400 > >> On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:42 PM, Timothy Nelson wrote: >> >>> _Teckla_ does indeed mention a Teckla Republic. I was mostly > wondering >>> what >>> people thought about the conditions at the time, and whether the >>> "Emperor" >>> would be elected. (After all, no matter how much political power > the >>> senate >>> would have, the orb has to sit on somebody.) >>> >> >> Before Julius Caesar, the Roman Senate elected a consul as head of >> state, usually two, to rule for a year. I imagine the Teckla have >> something similliar. > > Er. > > _Always_ two consuls, except for Pompey the Great's year as the > consul without a colleague, which was mostly to annoy the Boni. > Julius Caesar himself was a consul twice, and Augustus was, > technically, elected a consul, although no one would've been caught > dead running _against_ him. Oh thats right! I didn't pay attention to History in college. I thought after Caesar Augustus they did away with the consuls. --- "Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do."--Steven Brust