wife-slayer

Updated: July 25, 2025

That city, immense, predatory, ravenous, unrestrained, rotten to the marrow of its bones, and unassailable in its preterhuman power; that Cæsar, a fratricide, a matricide, a wife-slayer, after him dragged a retinue of bloody spectres no less in number than his court.

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero