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The October Horse (Masters of Rome #6) The October Horse by Colleen McCullough
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“Lo que Cleopatra no se molestó en decir a César es que le había mostrado el cuchillo a Poteino dos días antes de usarlo. Poteino lloró, gimió y rogó mucho por su vida durante esos dos días. La batalla naval tuvo lugar en los primeros días de diciembre. César dispuso sus naves mar adentro pero a corta distancia de los escollos situados frente al puerto de Eunostos; los diez barcos rodios a su derecha, los diez pónticos a su izquierda, y una brecha de unos setenta metros entre unos y otros para poder maniobrar. Los veinte barcos de transporte transformados en buques de guerra estaban mucho más atrás. César había diseñado la estrategia, pero Eufranor la puso en práctica, y antes de que zarpara la primera galera se cuidaron meticulosamente todos los detalles. Cada barco de reserva sabía exactamente qué nave de la hilera debía reemplazar; cada legado y tribuno sabía con toda precisión cuáles eran sus obligaciones; cada centuria sabía qué corvus utilizar para abordar un barco enemigo, y el propio César visitó cada unidad para pronunciar unas palabras de aliento y ofrecer un breve resumen de sus propósitos. Su larga experiencia le había demostrado que los soldados rasos bien adiestrados y avezados en el combate a menudo podían tomar la iniciativa y convertir una derrota en una victoria si también ellos conocían con exactitud los planes del general, así que siempre informaba a la tropa.”
Colleen McCullough, El caballo del César
“The cruel blow was in loving Cato, who refused to be loved”
Colleen McCullough, The October Horse
“And none of it mattered. Not the years, the aged husband, the loneliness. She walked into his arms and took his face between her hands, smiling up at him.

“My exile is over,” she said, and offered him her mouth.

He took it, wrung with pain, wracked with guilt, all the ardor and immensity of feeling he had passed on to his daughter liberated, uncontrollable, as fierce and wondrous as it had been in those long-forgotten days before Caepio died. His face was wet with tears, she licked them up, he pulled at her black robe and she at his, and together they fell upon the freezing ground, oblivious. Not once in the two years when she had been with him had he made love to her as he did then, holding nothing back, helpless to withstand the enormity of the emotion which invaded him. The dam had burst, he flew asunder, not all the stringent discipline of his self-inflicted and pitiless ethic could mar this stunning discovery or keep his spirit from leaping into a joy he had never known existed, there with her and within her, over and over and over again.”
Colleen McCullough, The October Horse