Currently reading the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCollough. Excellent. All about Rome in the time of Gaius Marius, Sulla and Julius Caeser. Just read the bit about Spartacus (different to the film)
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Currently reading the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCollough. Excellent. All about Rome in the time of Gaius Marius, Sulla and Julius Caeser. Just read the bit about Spartacus (different to the film
"I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."
Senator Augustus Verginius
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