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More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. I'm sure that they'll enjoy it.”īookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, My history of Carthage is full of amusing anecdotes. He was a very sound historian, and the last of the Romans. Pollio used to get attentive audiences by giving expensive dinners. And good books too, thirty-five years' hard work in them. I was thinking, 'So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. But I shall be frank and tell you what it was, though the confession is a shameful one.
“And what thoughts or memories, would you guess, were passing through my mind on this extraordinary occasion? Was I thinking of the Sibyl's prophecy, of the omen of the wolf-cub, of Pollio's advice, or of Briseis's dream? Of my grandfather and liberty? Of my grandfather and liberty? Of my three Imperial predecessors, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, their lives and deaths? Of the great danger I was still in from the conspirators, and from the Senate, and from the Gaurds battalions at the Camp? Of Messalina and our unborn child? Of my grandmother Livia and my promise to deify her if I ever became Emperor? Of Postumus and Germanicus? Of Agrippina and Nero? Of Camilla? No, you would never guess what was passing through my mind.
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