[about Germanicus] Well, if he's profoundly loved he's also profoundly dead. There's nothing wrong with loving the dead. Everybody's loved when he's dead.
I wouldn't count on that if I were you.
“Some Justice”
In this episode: Livia (4), Tiberius (2), Sejanus (2), Caligula (1), Antonia Minor (1)
[about Germanicus' friends' charge of murder] They have no proof.
No, but I dare say they could tell a pretty tale.
A pretty tale isn't proof.
That's a different song than the one you've been singing for the last five years. You've buried more people with your pretty tales than anyone I know.
Has it ever occurred to you, mother, that it's you they hate and not me?
There is nothing in this world that occurs to you that does not occur to me first. That is the affliction I live with.
[to Livia] I tell you what I'm going to do. It's your letter: you stick to it. And if it's read in the House, I'll deny all knowledge of it and excuse you on the grounds of mental incompetence brought on by extreme old age!
PPlancina
But how will I convince my husband to commit suicide?
Think of something. Appeal to his sense of honour; men find that irresistible.
That child is a monster!
I'm not, you horrid old German woman! I'll burn your German house down!
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