Cicero, say these, would have had a better old age if he had taken in sail after the affair of Catiline, and Scipio, too, if he had given himself pause after adding Numantia to Carthage; for a political cycle, too, has a sort of natural termination, and political no less than athletic contests are absurd, after the full vigour of life has departed. Crassus and Pompey, on the other hand, ridiculed Lucullus for giving himself up to pleasure and extravagance, as if a luxurious life were not even more unsuitable to men of his years than political and military activities.
-Plutarch's Life of Lucullus
absolutely fucking CACKLING at this mention of Crassus and Pompey here
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Happy Birthday to my girl Skuld
I wasn’t able to colour it but it’s something lol
Inspired by this screenshot that someone posted the other day
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