1. Vorenus knows that he should not have hesitated before killing Niobe; he also knows that she was the best wife she could be. She had Evander's child; she was, for all she knew, a widow at the time. He should have killed her; she killed herself to save him from committing an injustice. This is why he lets his children hate him, because if he had done the righteous thing, they ought to because he cursed them; if he sinned, it is his punishment. 2. Vorenus did not mind that Cleopatra was a bad woman, because she was not a Roman and knew no better. She was his master's woman and he would serve her, or kill her, as his master required. She was also the mother of his friend's son, however much she had lied about that. When she asked him to save the boy, it allowed him to leave her alive in her other treacheries without second thoughts and without regret. 3. Dying at home in his own bed with his children pious around him and his friend who had brought him home at his side was the easiest thing Vorenus ever had to do. He knew that he had been a good man, on the whole, who had served his masters and served the Republic, as far as both had been possible, and who had been ill-served by the Fates. He was, though he never used the title after the Ides of March, a Senator of Rome, and a soldier of the Thirteenth Legion, and the Judges would owe him some respect. His wife had slipped over the balcony and paid any debts she owed him. If Niobewas not waiting for him when the boatman Charon brought him across Lethe, if she was in Tartarus or wherever else adultresses went, he would ask for her politely, first, and then break open any gates that kept him from her. That was all.
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Date: 2007-05-20 01:43 pm (UTC)2. Vorenus did not mind that Cleopatra was a bad woman, because she was not a Roman and knew no better. She was his master's woman and he would serve her, or kill her, as his master required. She was also the mother of his friend's son, however much she had lied about that. When she asked him to save the boy, it allowed him to leave her alive in her other treacheries without second thoughts and without regret.
3. Dying at home in his own bed with his children pious around him and his friend who had brought him home at his side was the easiest thing Vorenus ever had to do. He knew that he had been a good man, on the whole, who had served his masters and served the Republic, as far as both had been possible, and who had been ill-served by the Fates. He was, though he never used the title after the Ides of March, a Senator of Rome, and a soldier of the Thirteenth Legion, and the Judges would owe him some respect. His wife had slipped over the balcony and paid any debts she owed him. If Niobewas not waiting for him when the boatman Charon brought him across Lethe, if she was in Tartarus or wherever else adultresses went, he would ask for her politely, first, and then break open any gates that kept him from her. That was all.