Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Epistolary security problem.

In Suetonius' life of Augustus he describes how Augustus could be on occasion forgiving, and on other occasions severe. Among the examples of severity we read the following:
he broke the legs of his secretary Thallus for having betrayed the contents of a letter for 500 denarii
(Suetonius, Augustus, 67)

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