If that pest and conflagration of the republic succeeds in defending his own mischievous and fatal tribunate by appeals to divine religion, when he cannot maintain it by any considerations of human equity, then we must seek for other ceremonies, for other ministers of the immortal gods, for other interpreters of the requirements of religion. M. Tullius Cicero. On His House. Chapter 1. Section 2.
Image: Young Nero as Pontifex Maximus shortly after taking the throne at the age of only 16 years and 9 months at the Corinth Museum courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Bgabel with added digital effects.
Image: Young Nero as Pontifex Maximus shortly after taking the throne at the age of only 16 years and 9 months at the Corinth Museum courtesy of Wikimedia Commons contributor Bgabel with added digital effects.
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