United States or Western Sahara ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Commodus has lost his own and destroyed Rome's, but mine not yet. I wish, though, that my father were in Antioch. He, too, is no cringer to images of beasts in purple. I wrote to my father recently and warned him to leave Rome before Commodus's spies could invent an excuse for confiscating our estates. I said, an absent man attracts less notice, and our estates are well worth plundering.
Whether recognized or not, he would become like a hunted animal might, in fact, end as a slave unless he should prefer to prove his identity and submit to Commodus's executioners.
There has come no answer to that letter I wrote to my father in Rome. Commodus's informers may have intercepted it." Norbanus whistled softly. The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in. "When did you write?" he demanded, when he had the horse under control again. "A month ago."
Marcus Antoninus provided fourteen governors all at once to superintend his son Commodus's education, and in six weeks he cashiered five of them; I know very well, continued my father, that Commodus's mother was in love with a gladiator at the time of her conception, which accounts for a great many of Commodus's cruelties when he became emperor; but still I am of opinion, that those five whom Antoninus dismissed, did Commodus's temper, in that short time, more hurt than the other nine were able to rectify all their lives long.
Word Of The Day