SPQR Blues 3 part XXIV
Tuesday, 6 March 2007 09:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)


Helvius (teacher, midnight medic, and philosopher) is reciting lines from the poet Lucan, who wrote goth epics in the court of Nero. Lucan's uncle was the equally goth, Stephen King-esque poet/playwright/makeover-expert Seneca, best known for his grand-guignol version of Medea.
Nero was about as good for their family as Domitian has been for Felix's.
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Date: 2007-03-07 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-07 03:13 am (UTC)Nero was about as good for their family as Domitian has been to Felix's.
Sudsy
Date: 2007-03-07 03:07 am (UTC)Re: Sudsy
Date: 2007-03-07 03:19 am (UTC)No, really, I was.
And I guess that's not particularly funny.
And of course there'll be a scene at the baths!
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Date: 2007-03-07 08:16 pm (UTC)Was your cryptic warnings about soap to tell us that suds will play out their inconvenient placements as much as you've covered up your other nekkid scenes? (grin)
Dr. Phil
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Date: 2007-03-07 08:51 pm (UTC)The Romans, they didn't do suds. However will I manage? Maybe some strategically placed ferns....
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Date: 2007-03-08 02:33 am (UTC)Heh.
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Date: 2007-03-11 09:13 am (UTC)Ha!
I know you thought you could slip that by me, because I've been all busy and AWOL lately, but ... I saw it! I did!
Or "them," I should say, since shuffling potted plants are always plural. Hawkwing says it takes a lot of plants in his case.
::snicker::
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Date: 2007-03-08 03:49 pm (UTC)Um . . . Felix's beard grows really fast! Just between the last two panels, he goes from clean shaven to grubby in an instant.
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Date: 2007-03-08 09:42 pm (UTC)