Grass Crown by Colleen Mccullough

Author:Colleen Mccullough
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, Politics, Colleen McCullough, Historical
ISBN: 9780061582394
Published: 1990-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

It is my intention to invade the lands of the Marsi. My army is finally in peak condition, and I am absolutely confident it will acquit itself in the same magnificent fashion as all my armies in the past have done, for the sake of Rome and the sake of their general.

Oho! thought Sulla, hackles rising. I’ve never heard the old boy express himself in quite those terms before! “For the sake of Rome and the sake of their general.” Now what gnat is whining round in his mind? Why is he linking himself personally to Rome? My army! Not Rome’s army, but my army! I wouldn’t have noticed it—we all say it—except for his reference to himself as their general. This communication will go into the archives of the war. And in it, Gaius Marius is putting himself on an equal footing with Rome!

Quickly Sulla lifted his head, glanced at Lucius Caesar; but if the southern commander-in-chief had spotted the phrase, he was pretending he had not. And so much subtlety, decided Sulla, Lucius Caesar did not have. He went back to deciphering Marius’s letter.

I think you will agree with me, Lucius Julius, that we need a victory—a complete and decisive victory— in my theater. Rome has called our war against the Italians the Marsic War, so we must defeat the Marsi in the field, if at all possible break the Marsi beyond recovery.

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