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Gaius Octavian Caesar:
This is absurd. I have no soldiery stuff in me, and this exertion brings on a fever. I feel it in my spleen.

Titus Pullo:
You're just not used to it. It takes time. I've seen you kill. There's plenty of soldier in you.

Gaius Octavian Caesar:
It's not the killing. It's the waving about of swords I find tedious. I dare say I can kill people readily enough as long as they're not fighting back.

Titus Pullo:
Never fear young Dominus. We'll make a regular terror of you.

Gaius Octavian Caesar:
At best I'll be a middling swordsman.

Titus Pullo:
It's better than nothing.

Gaius Octavian Caesar:
There you are wrong. The graveyards are full of middling swordsmen. Best not to be a swordsman at all than a middling swordsman.