In the canon
Lives of the Later Caesars
Anonymous
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 395 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 330
Flowers fall from a reversing ceiling onto a dinner party, and keep falling, and some of the guests beneath them do not get out. That is the emperor Heliogabalus at leisure, and it is the register of these lives of the men who held Rome after Hadrian: the ruler who went down into his own arena to fight as a gladiator, the boy priest who took a Vestal Virgin for a wife.
O blithe little soul, thou, flitting away, Guest and comrade of this my clay
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