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sforzesco · 9 days ago

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And he had great influence, both from the favours which he bestowed and the fear which he inspired, but more from the fear. At any rate, Sicinnius, who gave the greatest annoyance to the magistrates and popular leaders of his day, when asked why Crassus was the only one whom he let alone and did not worry, said that the man had hay on his horn. Now the Romans used to coil hay about the horn of an ox that gored, so that those who encountered it might be on their guard.

-Plutarch, Crassus 7

#roman republic tag #drawing tag #komiks tag #i have been doing so much reading about the sforzas (it's about ascanio it's always about ascanio except for when it's about #one of the other maria sforzas but usually it's about ascanio) that i briefly forgot about rome entirely #sort of. byzantium ofc occupies a permanent residence somewhere in my memory cache thanks to. valens #unpeeled some new thoughts about crassus while doing other stuff tho so i'll have to shake those violently in a box for a bit #and see what shakes loose

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