Repeat after Lope

Caesar it was, who all the world exceeded

Though he stepped over Pompey to achieve it;

And both of them, as if more proof were needed

Of pointlessness (and I can well believe it)

Triumphed in turn on Marius and Sylla.

And in an age before, great Alexander

Conquered the same: Charybdis to their Scylla,

And evidence that time may well meander

But leaves no oxbow lakes. Time's river flows

Consistently, and leaves no one behind,

But in the process, we can see it goes

Back over paths that repeat and rewind.

So after Caesar, came Augustus, who

Conquered it all: but it was nothing new.