Yet [*/+/^] : 27.225 MHz, Some Final Measures; Pliny The Younger Recalls Himself As A Barefoot Lad, August, 79 A.D.

As the cloud rose, my uncle summoned a slave to put

his shoes on him, and bind them.  I remained barefoot

beneath my dressing gown's floor-length hem.  The need

for shoes was something to which I gave no heed

during my teen years:  I think they made me nervous---

like capricious Emperors and a destabilized civil service.


Starward-Led

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Pliny witnessed the eruption of Vesuvius from his Uncle's estate at Misenum.  Apparently, he never quite "got over" the horror of it.

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