Lindsey Davis citations

Venus in Copper
Contexte: “I had been right in the first place. Getting involved with politicians is complete stupidity.”

Time to Depart

Last Act in Palmyra
Contexte: The new "humour", if you can call it that, is pure malicious gossip. Instead of making a genuine point, it's now good enough to repeat any ribald story without a thought for whether it's even true.

Master and God
Contexte: He was dead. No point speculating. Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happiness might be a possibility. Raise your standards. Make a decent life, Lucilla. Life is all there is. If it's only once, it must be good... He had been right. If perfection only happened once, that was better than never. Now nothing for her would ever again entail complete despair. So thank you, Gaius Vinius Clodianus, son of Marcus, thank you for your good deed, a deed that brightened somebody's dark world.

Last Act in Palmyra
Contexte: I asked why Grumio had had to turn to lesser things.'No call. In my father or grandfather's day all I would have needed in life were my cloak and shoes, my flask and strigil, a cup and knife to take to dinner, and a small wallet for my earnings. Everyone who could find the wherewithal would eagerly ask a wandering jokesmith in.'
'Sounds just like being a vagrant philosopher!'
'A cynic,' he agreed readily. 'Exactly. Most cynics are witty and all clowns are cynical. Meet us on the road, and who could tell the difference?’
'Me, I hope! I'm a good Roman. I'd take a five-mile detour to avoid a philosopher.'</p

The Iron Hand of Mars
Contexte: Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.

Nemesis
Contexte: Petronius once told me that pathological murderers tend to start their killing sprees while they are children. Find a man who takes prostitutes off the streets as a personal vocation, and he'll probably have a set of neat jars with his childhood collection of dissected rats.

The Third Nero

A Body in the Bath House

The Third Nero
Contexte: “Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.”

Time to Depart
Contexte: He wore the purple; it was his entitlement. With it he had neither wreath nor jewels. For him the best adornment of rank was acute native intelligence.

Time to Depart
Contexte: Not all the fine civic building programmes in the world would ever displace the raw forces that drive most of humankind. This was the true city: greed, corruption and violence.

Source: The Course of Honor

A Body in the Bath House

The Ides of April

Shadows in Bronze

Venus in Copper

The Silver Pigs

The Silver Pigs

The Accusers

Last Act in Palmyra

See Delphi and Die

Venus in Copper

Last Act in Palmyra

See Delphi and Die

The Silver Pigs

Last Act in Palmyra

The Accusers

Last Act in Palmyra