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two little details, neither of which I can source at the moment:

Pantheon was well above streetlevel when it was built. The street has been paved, and repaved, and repaved, with stone and brick and more stone and more brick and eventually asphalt since then. Rome really was seven hills back in the day. All the millenia of building has kind of flattened them.

The other point is that enlightened as Hadrian was, he was the first emperor to institute a different legal structure for the rich than for the rest of the empire. This only got worse as the empire went on.

re the panic attack: Deep breathing. And if you're looking for a longterm solution, hatha vinyasa yoga. There's a reason breathing is part of the practice.

"The only way I see that this could have been Roman is for a single Roman unit in the Eastern Provinces to desert and flee to Siberia..."

as Serge suggested, cue the Asterix joke....

re erik's "It appears that the first one sank into the swamp. And the second. The third looks like it burned first..." there's a Monty Python joke for this one as well, but I think it's the Holy Grail, not Life of Brian.

If we're having sex with robots then I want dibs on Jude Law.....even if he can count the number of seconds it's been since we were last together.

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