Murder in the Roman World
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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Veddius Polo and the Sea Lampreys
One of the things in the book that I get the most messages about is a guy called Veddius Polo who is a friend of Augustus. One day he invites Augustus around for dinner and one of his waiters enslaved attendants drops a crystal bowl into an enormous tank full of sea lampreys. For this terrible crime Holyo says okay off with your head basically like you're done I'm gonna execute you. Then what happened to the lampreys? And then the lampreys just live in his house and that's how he keeps them fed to feed some people. Fucking hell Jesus yeah!
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