Colleen Mccullough

The First Man in Rome

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  • ilaila13has quoted5 years ago
    He was talking now almost as if she didn’t exist, or as if she didn’t matter as an auditor, only as a presence who gave him an excuse to say aloud what he had long been thinking.
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    In love with one, married to another.
  • b1504139275has quoted5 years ago
    paused for a longer space of time, noting certain men: Scaurus and the unsuccessful consular candidate Catulus Caesar, Metellus Dalmaticus Pontifex Maximus, Gaius Memmius, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, Scipio Nasica, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus. Whichever way these men jumped, the senatorial sheep would follow.
  • b1504139275has quoted5 years ago
    “Those days are over, Conscript Fathers. I, Gaius Marius, consul of the Senate and People of Rome, am hereby serving notice upon the members of this House
  • ilaila13has quoted5 years ago
    Are we really replacing bad with good? Or are we merely replacing bad with worse?
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    Ask me no questions, Lucius Appuleius, and I’ll tell you no lies
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    What the eye don’t see and the ear don’t hear, the heart don’t grieve about
  • ilaila13has quoted5 years ago
    uncomfortably aware that his wife had lost a great deal of her original animation, but having insufficient intuition to see whose fault that was.
  • ilaila13has quoted5 years ago
    Dalmatica is young enough to think a grandfather exactly the right sort of husband
  • ilaila13has quoted5 years ago
    ambition allied to no talent is the most dangerous thing in the world.
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