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On one occasion the people cheered the team he opposed; he cried angrily: "I wish all you Romans had only one neck!" (Suetonius)
That he had love-affairs in the provinces, too, is suggested by another of the ribald verses sung during the Gallic triumph: Home we bring our bald whoremonger; Romans, lock your wives away! All the bags of gold you lent him Went his Gallic tarts to pay. View quote
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A few months before the murder [of Domitian] a raven perched on the Capitol and croaked out the words: "All will be well!" – a portent which some wag explained in the following verse: There was a raven, strange to tell, Perched upon Jove's own gable, whence He tried to tell us "All is well!" – But had to use the future tense. View quote
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