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On how the citizens of Autun received no reward for their loyalty: Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
Tweaking an earlier historian: [Vobsicus] relates the particulars [of ( Read more... )

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Slim pickings this time, but this is Gibbon on the Emperor Gallienus: He was a master of several curious but useless sciences, a ready orator and elegant poet, a skilful gardener, an excellent cook, and most contemptible prince.
And for a bit more snark and prejudice: ...the people of Alexandria, a ( Read more... )