cusseans

Updated: May 2, 2025

You were not drunk when you crucified Hephaestion's physician for not curing a man who killed himself by his intemperance in his sickness, nor when you sacrificed to the manes of that favourite officer the whole nation of the Cusseans men, women, and children who were entirely innocent of his death because you had read in Homer that Achilles had immolated some Trojan captives on the tomb of Patroclus.

Baron George Lyttelton Lyttelton - Dialogues of the Dead