After the 1890’s everything went to shit.
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After the CXC's everything went to excrementum.
Marcus Aurelius was a decens emperor, but he was no Julius Caeser. He was no Octavian. Roma burned that year, and during the Plebian Games, his prognatus Commodus declared that he was Hercules. He removed the head on the Colossus of Nero and replaced it with a replica of his own. He killed animalium with arrows and javelins every morning, and did the same to gladiators every vesperium. The games were rigged to make him look bonum.
Having spent about II centuries on the other side of the River Styx, I had grown accustomed to reports of Roma's slide into decadence and mediocritate. When I learned that Commudus had declared himself the new Romulus and had renamed the city Colonia Lucia Annic Commodiana in honor of himself, I had had enough, and prepared to lead a shade rebellium.
When Hades caught wind of this, he sent emissarii to Pertinax, the next emperor. The luctator Narcissus strangled Commodus in his bath. His statua was demolished and his body was burned in the Mausoleum of Hadrian.
In truth everything went to excrementum after I of the Pax Romana, the heir of Julius Caesar, the conqueror of Ægypt and Roma, died and went to Limbo.
The femina in your muralis is attractorius, to be sure, but she was no Cleopatra. I envy the shade of Marcus Antonius nothing except that.
