Rome Quotes

“He is wounded, but he is still the Leopard, still dangerous. His eyes look through you, until they don’t. That’s when he’ll kill you.”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War

“The dying go so swiftly at the end. Always the speed of their leaving catches me unawares; so much left to say, to promise, to pray for.”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War

“What of honour? What of courage? What of all the things that bind the legions together?’ He gave a shrug and a nod together, and a faint grin that was all the old Juvens; wild, erratic, carefree. His tilted palm said, ‘What of them? Life is too precious.”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War

“My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to—’ ‘She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.’ The empress’s voice was sharp”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War

“He is telling us who will defect from Vitellius. He wrote this in April. Vespasian wasn’t hailed imperator until the first of July.’ That date had been engraved on my liver since I first heard it. You will find it at my death, if you care to cut me open and look.

-- Lady Caenis”
― M.C. Scott, Rome: The Art of War