Teaser Tuesdays (Feb 17)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 
(though I got it from DebraB at Booking It )

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teasers:

Soldiers really are an extraordinary race of men, as tough as shield-leather, as superstitious as Egyptians and as sentimental as Sabine Grandmothers. Ten minutes later there were about two-thousand men besieging Germanicus's tent in a drunken ecstasy of sorrow and repentance and imploring him to let his lady come back with their darling little boy.

(p. 181, from   I, Claudius by Robert Graves