#collenn mccullough

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[ 2/? ]   First man in Rome —— Characters ; ;  Gaius Marius

❝ [ … ] maybe no great man is virtuous. Or good. didn’t know. Perhasp a man rich in those qualities by definition is barred from greatness.

——— Colleen McCullough, The first man in Rome

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[ 1/? ]    First man in Rome —— Characters ; ; Lucius Cornelius Sulla

❝ [ . . . ] for an unwary moment Sulla dropped his mask, and Aurelia caught a glimpse of someone she didn’t know. Yet - was that really true? Better to say, someone she had sensed lived there inside him, but never before had seen. Someone devoid of human qualities, a naked clawed monster fit only to scream at the moon. And for the first time in her life, she felt terrible fear.

——— Colleen McCullough, The Grass Crown