Dan Seitz

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Publius’ sister Camilla had been engaged to one of the Curiatii (because Alba Longa and Rome were effectively the same city. It’s a long story.) and when she saw her future husband dead, she cried. She put her own feelings of loss and grief over the victory of her city and for that her brother calmly walked over and thrust his sword, still dripping in her fiancé’s blood, into her chest, shouting, ‘So perish every Roman woman who mourns a foe!’
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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