Introduction

An welcomestri would like to start this week with a correction. In the episode decades of gloom, i told the story of a wealthy grain merchant who attempted to usurp republican control and install himself as king. The grain merchant in question was not named manlius, as i mistakenly said, but rather malius. He bears no relation to the malius who tried to use a grain famine to his personal advantage in four 39 b c episodes. I regret the error. Those of you who are noticing an improvement in audio quality are not hallucinating. I have recently upgraded my recording equipment. My only concern about wich is that my previous efforts will now seem poor cousins in comparison