Status Updates From The Claudius Novels: I, Cla...

…A story that was the subject of every variety of misrepresentation, not only by those who then lived but likewise in succeeding times: so true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity. TACITUS

“He was always boasting of his ancestors, as stupid people do who are aware that they have done nothing themselves to boast about.”

I can't emphasise enough how, after umpteen dozen rewatches of the BBC TV series, that this absolutely own.