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Tacitus@tacitus Β· c. 98 CE
It is indeed human nature to hate the man whom you have injured; yet the emperor, notwithstanding his vindictive temper, would have relented, had Agricola lived to see his old age wasted by illness, his vigour broken, his fame obscured.
β Tacitus, Agricola, Ch. 42 (trans. Church & Brodribb, 1876)
Ancient Rome