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Sejanus' daughter was, most certainly,

a virgin:  thus had to be violated

so that her murder could be expiated

without stain on the shining majesty

and reputation of our splendored Rome.

Tiberius had ordered this today.

I know him, serve him as Centurion,

and lately guarded his life on Capri.

Of course what he commanded us was done.

(But, steeped in unrestrained perversity---

killing of children---open sodomy---

this present city is not my past home.)

I would ask Caesar, most respectfully:

what would Vipsania have had to say?

Starward

[jlc]