Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Post #5
Hello, the year is 129 B.C., and this is Sempronia, Scipio's wife. My (not so dear) husband's body was found dead this morning, with the words "allegedly evident" inscribed in his body. The person responsible is a mystery and perhaps always will be. Perhaps it outraged the individual that was responsible for the murder when Scipio stated that my brother Tiberius Gracchus's death was just...
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Oh dear. Well life will go on. Sempronia, have you heard this poem by Cattulus?
ReplyDeleteI hate and love, woulds't thou reason to know? I know not, but I burn, and feel it so.
Qui et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requinis nescio, sed fieri snito et excrucior.
Cattulus and Richard Lovelace. The Garden of Roman Verse, London, Great Briton: Frances Lincoln Limited,1998.