David Robb: Sallust

Quotes 

• Sallust : He wants to marry a rich girl.

  Lepidus : Because he's wise.

  Sallust : And she won't have him.

  Lepidus : Because she's wise.

• Sallust : A pretty pass we've come to when a commoner can become an emperor and then a god without ever having been a noble.

• Sallust : [to Clodius]  These poems of yours, you're forever going to finish them, you never do.

  Lepidus : Ah, perhaps he'll publish them posthumorously.

  [laughs]