Ovid s Other Metamorphoses part 3
Nothing Criminal "If anyone wishes to know all my misfortunes, He asks for more than circumstance allows." --Tristia 4.10 Caesar Augustus held a sumptuous banquet in the magnificent palace triclinium. We were not the only guests of the First Citizen and his queen that evening, of course; there was such an excess of company that five tables and fifteen lecti were not enough to seat us all. I could not recount the full spectrum of distinguished personages that attended...