Here’s the first paragraph from what I’m reading now.
I, Julian Fabius, an advocate for discretion in all things, should have known better. Take that as a given. But even the best shield can drop with age, weariness, and wine and the truth is I would like my epitaph to be more impressive than “He Made a Fatal Jest about the Emperor Tiberius.”
From Pilate’s Magician by Micheal Wade