susan 3 days ago
Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, post the second sentence
"The words are purely imaginary."
-Mary Beard, in SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, writing how Sallust penned a deliberate misquote, so his account wryly has Cicero's greatest enemy (Cataline) speaking Cicero's most famous slogan
add a skeleton here at some point