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TIL When Rome fell into a grain shortage, M.Coriolanus suggested to weaponise the crisis and withhold aid from the starving plebs until some the recent pro popular reforms were rolled back. Following popular uproar the senate called him into a hearing, he refused to show up and was convicted

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