History Lessons

00:00:05 From Bertolt Brecht's novel fragment, The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar

00:11:34 but they didn't know what to do with them afterwards.

00:13:37 jangled with metal no less than if they'd come in armor.

00:15:39 For the gentlemen performed their office for honor's sake;

00:17:39 The latter is suggested by his having to leave afterwards

00:19:35 A Syrian freedman. I forget his name.

00:21:41 that the pirates seemed to be his bodyguard, rather than he their captive.

00:24:33 And as mentioned, he needed money.

00:26:42 The rest I'm telling you I have from Proconsul Junius

00:29:16 with a heap of money.

00:31:16 They emphasized ( C, too, was one of the orators ) the cheap slave prices

00:33:25 and immediately thereupon Pompey, through a mere amendment, so to speak

00:36:48 Why did you become a soldier?

00:38:41 But it one was in the town, as you were then, it was still good to get cheap bread?

00:51:12 If ideals can only be taken seriously if blood has flowed for them

00:53:02 and then up to the Capitol, where their water was cut off so they had to surrender.

00:55:36 At the appropriate time

00:57:54 Wasn't it just a small part of all the leprosy?

01:10:26 They told it in run-down, fungus-ridden tenement houses

01:12:40 He was winding up his Asian affairs, and seemed to have no thought of politics.

01:14:57 These mines, Italy's largest, were pretty much exhausted.

01:17:05 The mountain people stood on a very low rung of civilization.

01:19:20 tax rebates for his Province by proving that the country had suffered

01:21:43 Some, he was paid in Spain; others, in Rome.