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The Civil Wars
Appian
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 150 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient Greek
- Pages
- Pages 500
On the Capitol, senators tore the legs from their benches and clubbed a tribune of the people to death, and Appian marks that hour as the one Rome never came back from. He wrote in Greek, out of Alexandria, the better part of two centuries later, and he alone carries the whole ruin unbroken: the murder of Tiberius Gracchus, Sulla's lists, Caesar and the knives, the last of Pompey's sons run down at sea.
the first man, so far as I know, holding supreme power, who had the courage to lay it down voluntarily
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