HAIL, CAESAR!
When the pirates demanded twenty talents for his ransom, he laughed at them for not knowing who their captive was, and of his own accord agreed to give them fifty.
— Plutarch
THE FORUM BOARIUM
[They] were brought alive underground in the Forum Boarium, in a place surrounded by stones, already for years impregnated with the blood of human victims.
— Livy
BATTLE OF THE MILVIAN BRIDGE
Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this.
— Eusebius
CULT OF ANTINOUS
In Mysia, handsome young Hylas was abducted by water nymphs and vanished below the waters of a stream. Heartbroken Herakles went mad with grief, bellowing ‘Hylas! Hylas!’ and ripping out trees as he frantically searched for his beloved. He never abandoned his search, and his cries of ‘Hylas! Hylas!’ continue to echo through the ages every time we say the word ‘alas!’
— Hernestus