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“Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me. ”
― Mercedes Lackey, The Fire Rose

“Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.”
― Albert Camus

“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!”
― Albert Camus, Caligula

“That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
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― Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars

“But is life really worth so much? Let us examine this; it's a different inquiry. We will offer no solace for so desolate a prison house; we will encourage no one to endure the overlordship of butchers. We shall rather show that in every kind of slavery, the road of freedom lies open. I will say to the man to whom it befell to have a king shoot arrows at his dear ones [Prexaspes], and to him whose master makes fathers banquet on their sons' guts [Harpagus]: 'What are you groaning for, fool?... Everywhere you look you find an end to your sufferings. You see that steep drop-off? It leads down to freedom. You see that ocean, that river, that well? Freedom lies at its bottom. You see that short, shriveled, bare tree? Freedom hangs from it.... You ask, what is the path to freedom? Any vein in your body.”
― Seneca, Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero

“This young woman,鈥� said Diana, 鈥渨as responsible for the destruction of the Triumvirate鈥檚 fleet.鈥�
鈥淲ell, I had a lot of help,鈥� Lavinia said.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 understand,鈥� I said, turning to Lavinia. 鈥淵ou made all those mortars malfunction?鈥�
Lavinia looked offended. 鈥淲ell, yeah. Somebody had to stop the fleet. I did pay attention during siege-weapon class and ship-boarding class. It wasn鈥檛 that hard. All it took was a little fancy footwork.鈥�
Hazel finally managed to pick her jaw off the pavement. 鈥淲asn鈥檛 that hard?鈥�
鈥淲e were motivated! The fauns and dryads did great.鈥� She paused, her expression momentarily clouding, as if she remembered something unpleasant. 鈥淯m鈥esides, the Nereids helped a lot. There was only a skeleton crew aboard each yacht. Not, like, actual skeletons, but鈥攜ou know what I mean. Also, look!鈥�
She pointed proudly at her feet, which were now adorned with the shoes of Terpsichore from Caligula鈥檚 private collection.
鈥淵ou mounted an amphibious assault on an enemy fleet,鈥� I said, 鈥渇or a pair of shoes.鈥�
Lavinia huffed. 鈥淣ot just for the shoes, obviously.鈥� She tap-danced a routine that would鈥檝e made Savion Glover proud. 鈥淎lso to save the camp, and the nature spirits, and Michael Kahale鈥檚 commandos.鈥�
Hazel held up her hands to stop the overflow of information. 鈥淲ait. Not to be a killjoy鈥擨 mean, you did an amazing thing!鈥攂ut you still deserted your post, Lavinia. I certainly didn鈥檛 give you permission 鈥斺€�
鈥淚 was acting on praetor鈥檚 orders,鈥� Lavinia said haughtily. 鈥淚n fact, Reyna helped. She was knocked out for a while, healing, but she woke up in time to instill us with the power of Bellona, right before we boarded those ships. Made us all strong and stealthy and stuff.鈥�
Hazel asked, 鈥淚s it true about Lavinia acting on your orders?鈥�
Reyna glanced at our pink-haired friend. The praetor鈥檚 pained expression said something like, I respect you a lot, but I also hate you for being right.
鈥淵es,鈥� Reyna managed to say. 鈥淧lan L was my idea. Lavinia and her friends acted on my orders. They performed heroically.鈥�
Lavinia beamed. 鈥淪ee? I told you.鈥�
The assembled crowd murmured in amazement, as if, after a day full of wonders, they had finally witnessed something that could not be explained.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant鈥檚 Tomb

“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.”
― Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

“Please stop trifling.”
― Albert Camus

“...the guy might be a cold-blooded amoral sadistic killer and a cartload of tiles short of a watertight roof, but there was nothing wrong with his intelligence. [Caligula in Marcus Corvinus's eyes]”
― David Wishart, Finished Business

“As for Gaius, he has no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse dry-shod across the Gulf of Baiae.”
― Suetonius

“Maybe he was not quite what he seemed to be鈥andsome, brilliant, and鈥�.
Crazy?
Like the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero?
- Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Kira G.

“So this is the boom, eh?鈥� I said. 鈥淣ot exactly Scott Fitzgerald, is it?鈥� 鈥淚鈥檒l tell you what it鈥檚 like,鈥� he said glumly. 鈥淚t鈥檚 like being in Caligula鈥檚 Rome, and everyone around you鈥檚 having an orgy, and you鈥檙e the mug stuck looking after the horse.鈥� He pulled heavily on his cigarette. 鈥淭he whole thing鈥檒l come crashing down,鈥� he said bleakly, 鈥渁nd all anyone鈥檒l have done is eaten a lot of expensive cheese.”
― Paul Murray

“Cesonia (Erguida ante 茅l y con voz suplicante.): Existe lo bueno y lo malo, lo alto y lo bajo, lo justo y lo injusto. Te juro que nada de eso cambiar谩.

Cal铆gula (Con el mismo tono.): Pues yo deseo cambiarlo. Quiero concederle a este siglo la igualdad. Y cuando todo est茅 nivelado, cuando lo imposible reine por fin en este mundo, cuando tenga la luna en mis manos, entonces tal vez yo mismo me transforme, y el mundo conmigo; entonces por fin los hombres no morir谩n y ser谩n felices.”
― Albert Camus, Caligula

“Animals
fattened for your for your arena suffered less
than you in dying-yours the lawlessness
of something simple that has lost its law,
my namesake, and the last Caligula.”
― Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

“What can be salvaged from your life? A pain
that gently darkens over heart and brain,
a fairy's touch, a cobweb's weight of pain,
now makes me tremble at your right to live.”
― Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead