Roman Headstone
...IN MEMORY OF CENTURION
GAIUS LUCIUS MANIUS
PRIMUS PILUS FIRST COHORT
LEGIO VI VICTRIX
HE SPENT HIS PENSION
IN CISALPINE GAUL
WHERE HE RAN
AN HONEST BROTHEL
HIS FUNERAL WAS GRACED
BY A MU...
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Categories:
cisalpine, allegory, death, history, morning,
Form: Elegy
The Whips of History - 3
...We will be the trustees of life's passions...
The villas of villainous Rome are burning behind me
from Capua to the Cisalpine Alps the skyline is smoldering from her savage sins,
monuments of luxu...
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Categories:
cisalpine, history, passion, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets