Elagabalus Quotes
Elagabalus speaks with fierce imperial swagger, exposing the absurdity of power and family pretenses.
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He undertook to disparage my age, when he himself had appointed his five-year-old son.
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I am emperor. It is I who know what is best for Rome. Not you traitors. Now, let go of my horses!
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Let my mother be.
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[He was] delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the Queen of Hierocles. ~ Harry Benjamin in The Transsexual Phenomenon (1966)