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# What Do You Want?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/chto-vam-nuzhno/
- Published: 2025-09-24T06:33:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:28:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Books, Monarchies, Rome, Humour

> What do you want? A republic? The republic was a fraud. Do you want civil wars again? Do you want famine in the streets once more? Do you want the barbarians to come knocking at your doors? You bawl yourselves hoarse in vain. Go home! Rabble! And you call yourselves Romans?

Livia Drusilla\* to the rebels gathered outside the imperial palace, according to Robert Graves, that is, in a work of fiction. But it sounds very amusing.

*\*said to have poisoned all the heirs of Octavian Augustus, and Augustus himself, in order to set her son Tiberius on the throne*