Answer: no, but maybe god can?
Explanation:
We know we’re winning if the other team is losing
Suffering should be avoided. I am a Buddhist and Buddhism is built on the fact that humans are suffrage, we create our own suffering by being selfish and wanting to much and never giving it back. That is why when you find enlightenment you are not only finding your soul but you have everything you need and want.
Around the time of Julius Caesar the form of roman government effected the change from the form of Republic to that of Empire. This, however, only happenned after his death by assassination and was succeeded by his grandnephew Octavius, who in fact was the first Roman Emperor.