if you please people, no matter what you do they will not judge your conduct by the facts but will construe it in a light favorable to you, and if you make mistakes, they will overlook them. Isocrates. Antidosis. Speech 15. Section 134.
Image: A statue of Augustus from the Augusteum of Herculaneum now in the collection of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Marie-Lan Nguyen (user Jastrow).
For those interested, some time ago I wrote about the problem of fluorosis in Herculaneum and posed the question "Was the College of Augustales at Herculaneum founded to cope with the socio-economic impact of widespread fluorosis around the Bay of Naples?"
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