While the members of the Senate's aristocratic faction, or optimates, seethed, the minions of the so-called First Triumvirate maintained their stranglehold on Roman politics.
We do our anger an honour, and can start to dismantle its dangerous impacts, when we recognise the distinctive stranglehold that frustration can acquire on our emotions.
During the first century BCE, three mighty Roman men had a complete stranglehold over Roman politics: Pompey Magnus, Marcus Crassus, and Julius Caesar.
That will require it to upgrade traditional industries, break foreign strangleholds on existing technologies and forge a new path in industries of tomorrow.
Today, bananas are no longer as economically vital in Central America, and United Fruit Company, rechristened Chiquita, has lost its stranglehold on Latin American politics.
It's the sneaky power, the stranglehold that addiction has when you're in the throes of it, says Cameron, who shot up cocaine nearly daily and withstood drug-induced seizures.
Carmakers are hoping to break the stranglehold of China and South Korea on battery-making, bringing production closer to home to keep costs in check and supplies reliable.