Those Roman Emperors!
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- Title
- Those Roman Emperors!
- Language
- English
- Year
- 1939
- Subject
- Roman emperors
- Claudius (Roman emperor)
- Caligula (Roman emperor)
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- Abstract
- A controversial story of 2 roman emperors namely Claudius and Caligula.
- Fulltext
- xide. The wind blows it over the neighboring country, and sometimes the pastures where the horses graze are visibly coated with a thin layer of the dust. The speculation is that some time, long ago, a peasant who was rather more astute than his fellows noticed that the horses grazing in pastures sprinkled with the white dust were more beautiful, stronger, and had glossier coats and were generally more satisfactory animals than those grazing on other pasthe correct assumption that it was the white powder that made the horses so fine (race-horses are "doped" sometimes with arsenic before a race to give them greater speed), that what was good for horses might be good for men. So he collected some of the dust and tried it on himself, with the results that he had anticipated. That might have been the beginning of the arsenic-eating m Styria.From The Doctor Looks at Murder, by M. Edward A1 art en and tures. He must have reasoned on Norman Cross. * * * THOSE ROMAN EMPERORS! CALIGULA, the third ruler of Rome, declared himself God so that he might enter the sacred temples and seduce the virginal female vestals, who were similar to our modern nuns. Caligula made his favorite horse a priest, and gave it a marble palace, plus furniture and slaves. * CLAUDIUS, who next ascended the throne, was so absent-minded that when he had his wife killed for adultery, he forgot about it, and the following evening asked his servants why she didn't appear for dinner. AUGUST, 1939 7 Nature's Wealth and Force 8 PANORAMA
- Date Issued
- IV(8) August, 1939