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Episode CXII - The Book of Love

Emperors of Rome

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A Song and a Mistake

Actian says he was banished for a poem and a mistake. He refers to the myth of action, in which acteon accidentally sees diana naked. The suggestion is that the other crime was seeing something, but we don't know what it was. And the poem is the other half of the story.

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