"She called me a stupid man. She was angry of course, she didn't mean it. I wish she could have seen this, for this is stupidity in truth. Isn't it?
"I made the novice's mistake, I over estimated you. Exactly. Yes, exactly. I waited too long before putting the proposition. I should have climbed up here before we built the ramp. What in the name of common sense does a thing like this prove?
"You thought I was a lair? What did you tell them? They'd be tortured? No. No one. You felt you were cornered.
"I overestimated you. A leader must know not only who his enemy is, but who his friend... His friend... I would never have let this happen to you. You did this yourself! You blamed Rome for it! I should have put the proposition sooner. You'd be alive now. You'd be halfway to Rome now. And she will...
"The Three of us would have been halfway home because nothing would have changed. It would have been temporary, it would not have changed. Because nothing would have changed. I would have proved it to you! With us! You would have a chance to build something good here! Without us!
"This is what you always meant: always killing yourself. Fighting one another without end! Over and over without foresight! No sense of reality! No...
"I should have put the proposition sooner.
"An error in tactics on my part. IT doesn't prove the system is wrong, it proves the opposite in fact.
"... No body's listening any more. Not even Vespasian's Monkey."
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["In the name of the Senate and the people of Rome. In their name: this victory!"]
"A victory? What have we won? A rock in the wasteland at the shore of a poison sea."
