"Let all the snakes that lurk in the mud hatch out..."
"Let all the snakes that lurk in the mud hatch out..." That was a line in the BBC production of I, CLAUDIUS, based on the Robert Graves novels of the life of that crippled, stammering, under-appreciated Roman who was suddenly and unwillingly elevated to be Emperor in the chaos after Caligula's assassination. This is novelized history, based on Suetonius, the Roman historian of the later Roman Empire, but also takes some dramatic liberties, so I can't say this is actually ho w it all was. But... Sign in to see full entry.