Yet Another Political Message from Robert E. Howard

When I overthrew Numedides, then I was the Liberator -- now they spit at my shadow. They have put a statue of that swine in the temple of Mitra, and people go and wail before it, hailing it as the holy effigy of a saintly monarch who was done to death by a red-handed barbarian. When I led her armies to victory as a mercenary, Aquilonia overlooked the fact that I was a foreigner, but now she can not forgive me.
--Conan in Robert E. Howard's "The Phoenix on the Sword"