#plutarch life of marius trans. rex warner

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the houseeeeeeeeeeee

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(plutarch life of marius trans. rex warner) do you think martha the prophetess and marius’ wife julia ever explored each other’s bodies

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yippeeeeee when your wounded body is a living tomb!

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unnecessarily bitchy and very funny of sulla to do this. also the sulla/surrender of iugurtha by bocchus coin minted by faustus sulla was totally modelled on the design from sulla’s ring right. like marius and sulla were both dead by that point but you know when that coin went into circulation marius’ ghost was PISSED

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gaius marius of seven consulships and innumerable consul shits fame. or something. what was he thinkinggg

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gaius marius voice. this particular guy’s ghost be upon ye

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vs the same moment (battle of aquae sextiae) in plutarch’s life of marius 18 trans. rex warner:

both of these have water/blood substitutions but like. plutarch isn’t doing cannibalism with it. florus definitely read/used lucan, so he might just be pharsaliabrained enough to put a little bit of drinking blood wherever? but plutarch also definitely read sulla’s memoirs, and says elsewhere that sulla is (too?) unfavourable towards marius. did sulla have marius drinking blood and plutarch read it and went. hmm perhaps not. ??? i want to believe this because it would make lucan’s line about pompey licking blood off sulla’s sword a) intertextual and therefore sexier and b) funnier

florus 1.38.9 trans. e.s. forster