Senores, if fortune turns her wheel so that my master decides not to be an emperor but an archbishop, I'd like to know now: what do archbishops errant usually give their squires?

sancho panza, in don quixote by miguel de cervantes, pt.1, ch.26, trans. edith grossman

I would have replied with the same retort as Canius made to the Emperor Caligula when he was accused of being involved in a plot against him. 'If I had known of it,' he said, 'you would not.'

beothius, consolation of philosophy, i.IV, p.12

awesome.

"With Domitian, only forty years later, it had bcome a convention of polite speech to hail the emperor as dominus et deus, 'my lord and god.'"

christianity and classical culture by thomas cochrane, 142.

"And Thomas answered and said to Him, 'My Lord and my God!'"

john 20:28

we win. domitian was assassinated, and damnatio memoriae passed on him by the senate. our Dominus et Deus lives.