feeling a lot of love for Suetonius' Titus "One evening at dinner, realizing that he had done nobody any favour throughout the entire day, he spoke these memorable words: 'My friends, I have wasted a day.'"
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"'How shall I enter that item in your expense ledger?,' asked his accountant later, on learning that she had got 4,000 gold pieces out of him; and Vespasian replied, 'Just put it down to 'passion for Vespasian'.'"
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...whole quote? Are you enjoying Suetonius? I almost picked up a copy of The Twelve Caesars but stopped because I've not read Thucydides yet and he's just sitting on my shelf, leering at me.
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see the next tweet ^^ I had a vintage copy a while ago, gave it as a gift before I finished reading it which seemed also v Titus
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