Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not have disdained to ally yourself peacefully with one so nobly born, the ruler of so many nations.


Tacitus Annales, Bk. XII, ch. 37


Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not...

Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not...

Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not...

Had my lineage and rank been accompanied by only moderate success, I should have come to this city as friend rather than prisoner, and you would not...