Quote Originally Posted by Stephen Asen View Post
P.S.2 Lead poisoning or intermarriage between the old families, maybe both. Who knows...
High probability of being both, more taking into account they sum up and consequences passed down to future generations, but lead poisoning has less to do with aqueducts than to lead cups and glasses of sorts, wine and lead is worst combination than water and lead, also if it were for water, entire Rome had to be poisoned and not only the high class.