The Fourth Option (Fourth Option #1)

Epigraph

Now Roman is to Roman

More hateful than a foe,

And the Tribunes beard the high,

And the Fathers grind the low.

As we wax hot in faction,

In battle we wax cold:

Wherefore men fight not as they fought

In the brave days of old.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Horatius”