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SPQR Blues ([personal profile] spqrblues) wrote2007-03-06 09:04 pm
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SPQR Blues 3 part XXIV

Vertically challengedMany apologies for the delay. It's been hard shaking the [whatever-the-heck-it-is-I-had] and its after-effects.




The lawn ornament objects


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.

[identity profile] meritahut.livejournal.com 2007-03-07 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
It's my translation of one of my favourite lines from the poet Lucan, who wrote lots of gothy stuff in the court of Nero. His uncle was the gothy, Stephen King-esque poet/playright/makeover-expert Seneca, best known for his grand-guignol version of "Medea."

Nero was about as good for their family as Domitian has been to Felix's.