Roman History, 55.14.2

Cassius Dio  translated by Earnest Cary

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2While he was in doubt what to do and was finding it impossible either to be free from apprehension by day or from restlessness by night, Livia one day said to him: “What means this, husband? Why is it that you do not sleep?”

And Augustus answered: “What man, wife, could even for a moment forget his cares, who always has so many enemies and is so constantly the object of plots on the part of one set of men or another?

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