"Antonius from his success and high reputation was observed of all. He had hastened to the baths to wash off the blood; and when he found fault with the temperature of the water, an answer was heard, 'that it would soon be warm enough.' Thus the words of a slave brought on him the whole odium of having given the signal for firing the town, which was indeed already in flames."
Tacitus, Histories (100 AD).
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