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"Listen, and understand. It can’t be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead." Kyle describing the Terminator to Sarah / Circe describing Scylla to Odysseus (Odyssey, 12.115)

"The Britons have more spirit than Gauls because they are not a people made soft and lazy by a long peace. Gauls were once famous for their warmongering but then came the easy life and as well as saying goodbye to their freedom, they also said goodbye to their courage." Tacitus

The ancient sound of the Roman cornu - a horn used for signalling troop movements and announcing the presence of the emperor in military and civilian settings. Each legion had 36 cornu players, as well as other trumpet and horn players. Imagine the noise!

Vorenus: I go this way. My home is behind the street of the cloth dyers, if you... Pullo: Go with Fortune, sir. Vorenus: The cleaner brothels are in the Subura, next to the Venereal temple.

6/9) Carved in remarkable high relief, the armour of a victorious general: its cuirass decorated with the face of the Gorgon, shoulder guards ornamented by winged Victories, and skirts of leather pteruges strips protecting the hips and shoulders..

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. - Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert

'Does it not seem to you that this king of the gods, in all matters alike, is given to violence?' - Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound.

'A statesman cannot expect to make money out of the community and to receive its respect as well; for honourable people do not try to make money out of their friends. Indeed, we honour the man who loses his money by holding office.' - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1163b.

Roman intaglio gem showing Eros riding a winged phallus with eagle legs. In one foot the phallus grasps a thunderbolt while Eros holds a laurel wreath of victory, 1st century BC.

Roman glass fish flasks and vessels, 1st-4th century AD 🐟

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2,500 years ago a Greek sculptor began to outline this sculpture of a horse but, for reasons unknown, never completed it. The basic shape was incised into the limestone and was being roughly carved to size, with details like the bridle already indicated. From Sparta, c.500 BC.

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