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hope of avenging their deaths on me?"
"No, not even if you were the murderess. I never take vengeance unless I am forced to do so by an oath or in self-protection. I believe that evil is its own punishment. All I want now is just to know the truth. I am a professional historian and the one thing that really in [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] terests me is to find out how things happen and why. For instance, I write histories more to inform myself than to inform my readers."
"Old Athenodorus has had a great influence on you, I see."
"He was kind to me and I was grateful, so I became a Stoic. I never meddled with philosophical argument-that never appealed to me-but I adopted the Stoic way of looking at things. You can trust me not to repeat a word of what you tell me."
I convinced her that I meant what I said, and so for four hours or more I asked her the most searching questions; and each question she answered without evasion and as calmly as if she had been some country steward relating the minor casualties of the farm-yard to the visiting owner. Yes, she had poisoned my grandfather, and no, she had not poisoned my father in spite of Tiberius's suspicions-it was a natural gangrene; and yes, she had poisoned Augustus by smearing poison on the figs while they were still on the tree; and she told me the whole Julia story as I have related it, and the whole Post