| Have you heard this old boy Hyginus's favorite poem!!! Go ahead, ask him about it!!! Can you imagine someone exiled to the Black Sea for writing funny, sexy poetry!! Was Augustus so pure and modest himself? I don't think so!! Didn't Suetonius tell us that Livia pimped girls for his majesty, right there in the same lavishly decorated Domus Liviae: "Circa libidines haesit, postea quoque, ut ferunt, ad vitiandas virgines propmptior, quae sibi undique etiam ab uxore conquirerentur." (translation) |
My grandmother says that one of those deflowered virgins was my great-great-great-grandmother, but Nana was old and a bit weak in the head when I heard this from her. . . although people comment that I have eyes like those of Augustus on the Prima Porta statue. You tell me! Didn't his own daughter sleep with the Roman Senate? Ha! What hypocrisy! At home we would have laughed him out of office.