Gaius Antonius Hybrida, Consul 63 BCE

[@FishBoneD14]

An alcoholic so bad I knew about his drinking as a middle schooler centuries later

[@nicholasparker2086]

Fishbone is a learned man, and lover of his country

[@itsvibes7241]

Thresites blessing us lately🤞

[@JawsOfHistory]

Waited a loooong time for this one.

[@Getupinthere]

Christmas is any day that Thersites uploads

[@amyas80]

He was a Consul of LoL! Love the Romans of Renown series. Particularly when you cover those of lesser political talents (to put it mildly). Hope you one day cover my boi Gaius Memmius, rich patron of the arts, philanderer extraordinaire, husband to a loose celebrity wife and by all accounts pretty much the Metellus Scipio of political and legal manoeuvering......

[@ThersitestheHistorian]

Tune in Monday morning.

[@Tacidian-o1r]

I hope, I live long enough to see the video on Metellus Scipio. That will be a video for the ages.

[@CJ8pl]

He gotta keep on making the Byzantine Emperors overviews. I need that second part of that tier list.

[@theLetterDoubleYou]

Thersites please represent Hybrida with street fighter Blanka in the tier list!

[@alanpennie]

He had his moments, he had some style... Running for the censorship was an excellent joke.

[@SentMyOwnWay]

You ripped this dude a new hole lol

[@alejandrofrank2717]

The man, the alcoholic and the corrupt

[@obamabiden]

"aside from being an ancient lolcow-" Thersites i am losing my mind at this

[@alanpennie]

Quintilian has pinned him to the wall by preserving that anecdote from Caelius Rufus.

[@SentMyOwnWay]

Always good to see you upload

[@konst80hum]

Hai Half Beast! Seriously this rogues gallery is very interesting and thank you for delivering them to us.

[@stevenpartin9208]

I've been waiting on this one!

[@nathanalbright]

lolcow extraordinaire

[@TheSilentPrince-mt5mx]

Props for using a picture of feckin' Father Jack.

[@citricdemon]

"the year of tullius and caesar" this was a clever pun

[@alanpennie]

I think he actually meant *year of Tullius and Cicero*.

[@citricdemon]

@@alanpennie i think it was tullius and caesar, because tullius rhymes with julius.

[@kennethknoppik5408]

Emperor Norton? OMG that guy was a character😂

[@garrow12225]

The infamous Hybrida, great video Thersites

[@joeshmoe8345]

Loved it, thnx for sharing with us!

[@WorthlessWinner]

Alcoholism runs in the family, I guess

[@countdowntorevolution9986]

17:59 is that the same Sura who fought Mithridates just prior to Sulla's arrival?

[@isidroramos1073]

No, that one was Quintus Bruttius Sura

[@jacksambuck67]

You said a tribune vetoed the judicial proceedings against hybrida. If they could do that easily, and given caesar as a populares had a lot of support among the plebs, why was caesar afraid of prosecution after his term expired?

[@C104-k5m]

Truly the Boris Johnson of his time

[@poisonking-z2w]

Will you ever do a video about the Poison King himself?

[@Casmaniac]

The Beast Man ! Shocking, unrelenting horror ! lol

[@samiamrg7]

If he was just a bit less of an alcoholic, Hybrida might have been able to carve out a fairly decent political career considering he managed to stumble his way into a consulship even while incredibly drunk.

[@talpark8796]

thx, again 🤟

[@damienpace7350]

You didn't mention the rumours of his atrocities and torture in the provinces. Why not?

[@citricdemon]

Lot of slander in this vid. What's your source? Suetonius? Cassius Dio?

[@alanpennie]

Presumably mostly our usual sources Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust. Quintilian's Institutio is mentioned in the video, and Dio has a few unflattering remarks. There are many even more scandalous charges against him which aren't mentioned in the video.

[@alanpennie]

@@citricdemon Probably the standard three (Caesar, Cicero, and Sallust) plus Quintilian and Dio. Maybe Plutarch.

[@citricdemon]

@@alanpennie Caesar was an honorable man. So were they all, all honorable men. I'm glad we got that settled.

[@electricVGC]

I took too long to get to this video. I see you take Cicero at his word about the alleged Cataline conspiracy, but I think today there is no consensus the conspiracy was real, rather that it was fabricated or played up by Cicero. I would be interested in hearing you engage with Arthur Kahn's perspective on it.

[@henkstersmacro-world]

👍👍👍

[@marcppparis]

Roman George Santos

[@monte6371]

hybrida was a dog. incompetent but a dog