जी ए कुलकर्णी, 'स्वामी'/ 'पिंगळवेळ', १९७७:
(महंत 'स्वामी'ला) "... भोवतालच्या माणसांना एकच मुंडी असती तर ती आपण अत्यंत आनंदाने पिरगाळली असती, असे वाटण्याजोगे क्षण तुझ्या आयुष्यात कधी आले नसतील?..."
(मूळ प्रसिद्धी: 'दीपावली', १९७३)
Robert Graves, ‘I, Claudius’, 1934:
“...When I returned to Rome I heard that there had open
trouble. Caligula had been disturbed one night by the distant noise of the
people crowding to the amphitheatre just before dawn, and pushing and
struggling to get near the gates, so that when these opened they could get into
the front rows of the free seats.
Caligula sent a company of Guards with truncheons to restore
order. The Guards were ill-tempered at being pulled from their beds for this
duty and struck out right and left, killing a number of people, including some
quite substantial citizens. To show his displeasure at having had his sleep
disturbed by the original commotion and by the far louder noise that the people
made when they scattered screaming before the truncheon charge, Caligula did
not appear in the amphitheatre until well on in the afternoon when everyone was
worn out by waiting for him, and hungry too. When Leek Green won the first heat
there was no applause and even a little hissing.
Caligula leaped angrily from his seat: "I wish you had
only a single neck.
I'd hack it through!"...”
Sir John Hurt as Caligula (Aug 0012 – Jan 0041) at the games from TV serial 'I, Claudius', 1976
courtesy: BBC