Table V:
Tela Exhaurite: "Fire all the Missiles"!
Bush Elephants/Forest Elephants: im not an animal expert so i confused the two kind of Elephants, actually what i called "Bush elephants" were "Forest Elephants" and what i called "Forest elephants" were "Bush Elephants"
Pretorian Guards/Equites Pretoriani: I tend to use this, but i should use
Consular Guard, Pretorian Guard just means the Guard of the General in the Tent at the center of the Military Camp. But i dont know when it became commonly used (i suppose in imperial age?).
Table VI:
"If i can change, and you can change...": quote from b-movie Rocky IV???
The story of the purpled pallium: it's my "free" adaptation of the story told in the Satyricon, i used the Pallium, but there is a little mistake (call it again a poetical license). Infact, in real world, the
Pallium is the common robe, while the
Tunic is the more precious one, so to make the thing more precious, i should have used the Toga in place of the Pallium. So, when Encolpius says that the rusty countryside folks where almost putting their hands on their Tunics, it was not very correct, cause it is strange that 3 thieves guys who are fleeing, dress some tunics, they should have dressed some
Pallia.
also in the Pic of Roma, i say the Senators met Atilius in the Forum?!?... ok another of those poetical licenses...
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