ext_72681 ([identity profile] cerebel.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] artyartie 2007-03-22 02:01 am (UTC)

Oh! Cicero's line is so poignant:

“Because to have stayed at home, safe in my villa-“ He halted, the words thick as wool on his tongue. “It would mean that the Republic would live or die without me. And I cannot possibly admit that.”

That really just made the whole thing for me.

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