Claudius the God (Claudius, #2)
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The last one that I remember was a man called Joshua bar Joseph, a native of Galilee.
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The ash was hewn, the high white fir laid low, Down toppled they the princely pines, and all That grove of countless leaves rang with the timber’s fall.
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everything in this world was subject to change and improvement.
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The frog-pool wanted a king. Jove sent them Old King Log. I have been as deaf and blind and wooden as a log.
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Yet I am, I must remember Old King Log. I shall float inertly in the stagnant pool. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.
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‘A harlot’s love, a harlot’s lie’ – Cast that ancient proverb by. CALPURNIA’S heart was cleaner far, Roman matrons, than yours are.
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Write no more now, Tiberius Claudius, God of the Britons, write no more.