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Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

— Caligula

Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!

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Source, in full

In Suetonius, Life of Gaius Caligula, sec. 30, as translated in Charlotte Mary Yonge, Landmarks of History. Ancient History: From the Earliest Times to the Mahometan Conquest (London: John and Charles Mozley, 1852) ch. 13, pt. 4, p. 171

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I wish the Roman people had but one neck. | Alexander Thomson, The Lives of the First Twelve Cæsars (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796) p. 346 | Compare: Byron, Don Juan, canto 6, st. 27

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