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Ugh...I love McCullough but if we can get three pages of Rufus teaching Sulla how to manipulate his daughter we can get a decent battle scene.

It's amazing how the Romans managed to consistently win wars when they were constantly bickering and fighting with each other while waging them. The constant undermining and crying to the Senate brings back very strong memories of the Cimbrian War from the first book.

This is a horrible kind of book to read after several beers. But I'm gonna do it.

Man...just when I start to think the old Sulla is gone he reassures me by launching into a misogynist tirade and follows it up by viciously beating the shit out of his daughter. What a guy!

The gate opened, a man slid round it and walked toward him. Quite a little fellow compared to his own splendid height, the King was pleased to see--but very well put together. The Roman was clad in a plain steel cuirass shaped to his torzh

Soap operatic melodrama with the Caepios and the Druses...Caepii? Drusii? I really don't understand Latin at all. Anyways, this should be really lame but it's awesome.

Marius travels from Rome to eastern Anatolia to tell King Mithridates VI to fuck off, the Italian Allies chafe under the yoke and Sulla schemes, lusts and poisons in Rome.

McCullough continues to make a great deal of Caesar even at this point (he's two.) He has a creepy St. Alia of the Knife vibe about him.