Sunday, August 27, 2023
The Filibuster
Michael Grant, Julius Caesar (New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1969), p. 69:
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It would not have been entirely unprecedented for the senate to authorise a candidate to stand for the consulship in absentia, and Caesar requested this exemption for himself . But Cato talked out the whole of the last day on which the matter could be discussed, so that no permission was given. Perhaps he invented the institution of the filibuster: certainly he slammed the door upon all hopes of the Republic and Caesar ever again co-operating in harmony.
