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    The Case of the Fresh Fillet and Crispy Sprats

    Part 1 For some time I have mentioned Juvenal's Satire IV as Domitian's Big Fish Story. It's possible that I may have been too hasty in making this about Domitian, yet an important meeting was held at his summer villa, which now belongs to the papacy. I should have done this some time ago, but...
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    Domitian's Cartouche Discovered

    As with the Julio-Claudian pharaohs [sic], the cartouches of Domitian, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius have recently been discovered. ASWAN, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that the students of the Egyptian Excavation Field School have uncovered a second-century temple at the Kom Al-Rasras...
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