A much longer time is necessary for eradicating an idea from men's minds than a fact from their practice.

This should be proved to us by our own loyalty to the word "monarch," when nothing can be farther removed from a monarchy than our own commonwealth.

From those first breaches in republican practice which the historian Florus dates back to the siege of Numantia,[230] B.C.133, down far into the reign of Augustus, it took a century and a quarter to make the people understand that there was no longer a republican form of government, and to produce a leader who could himself see that there was room for a despot.
Pompey had his triumph; but the same aristocratic airs which had annoyed Cicero had offended others.

He was shorn of his honors.

Only two days were allowed for his processions.