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In the official chronicle an emperor's reconquest looks heroic; to the soldier who marched it, ruinous.
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Winning back lost provinces drains so much blood and gold that the empire cannot hold what it regains.
Les Guerres de Justinien
Even poems dashed off for friends' villas and baths hide a quiet prayer for sleep among the flattery.
Silvae
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