On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:13:09 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

OM wrote:

...Which means the *next* time we get into the "I'm Spartacus!" chain
posting, you'd better state that you're Lentulus Batiatus.

Or should that be Patiatus?

Since I tend toward corpulence, and am reasonable, pleasant, and
phlegmatic*, may be I should go with Grachus

....No, sorry, you get Batiatus. I claimed Grachus a long time ago, as
we both share the same tastes in servants. And what's really
interesting about that particular Roman senator is that, according to
what records do survive from that era, he really *did* have quite a
harem of sorts, and by those same accounts he a) freed them all after
buying them, b) they stayed as his "slaves" on their own accord, every
single one of them, c) never forced himself upon his harem, and loved
them all equally enough to where d) he wound up with at least thirty
children by them who, while not heirs to his fortunes, were at least
born as free Roman citizens by his own accord.

I want to be this guy when I grow up :-)

OM

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