Now with Caesar dead and Marcus Antonius attacking me and my fellow senators I and several others are escaping to Greece. I appologize to those I offended, Marcus Antonius, but long live Rome!
I have a recipe that I can send with you to Greece. I hope you will enjoy it very much! I was going to have it at our next family gathering, but since you are going to Greece I will give it to you.
Bake bream at seaside Carthage: first rinse it well. You will see a good big one at Byzantium too, with a body the size of a round shield. Deal with it whole, thus: when you have taken it and located it well all over with cheese and oil, hang it up in a hot clay oven and then bake it through. Sprinkle with cumin-rubbed salt and grey-green oil, drenching it generously with the divine liquid.
Archestratus 13, Bream in Cheese and Oil. Dalby, Andrew. Sally Grainger, The Classical Cookbook. Los Angelos: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996.
Yes you should be sorry! and honestly I dont except your apology. I am attacking you because you killed a man that did not need to die and I dont know why in the world you would kill him! what good did it really do for Rome? Yes I am glad I get to become Ruler but still Caesar didnt need to die, him and I were very close and so you better run far away and DONT come back!
You, Brutus, say you killed Caesar for the good of Roma... but was Roma ready for ANARCHY and CIVIL WAR? We are a wonderful people, and the people must decide whether they wish for him to die. Was his death good for only the survival of Roma, to keep to an old oath? The people disagreed with his death, that is why you will die--his death was for the good of everlasting Roma, not for her people!
Marcus he was my good friend too and I regret to have allowed you to live. We should have cut you down at the same place as Caesar. Cato you're my father in law!.. Of all people I thought I would at least have your support. The anarchy and civil war that now plague our country are not my fault, would you rather have lived under Caesar's dictatorship? The people of Rome don't understand my reason for killing Caesar nor do you or Marcus. All of his acts that brought wealth to our country are appreciated but they were only to gain popularity and power from the people. His ambition was lurking in the shadows of his glory.
I have a recipe that I can send with you to Greece. I hope you will enjoy it very much! I was going to have it at our next family gathering, but since you are going to Greece I will give it to you.
ReplyDeleteBake bream at seaside Carthage: first rinse it well. You will see a good big one at Byzantium too, with a body the size of a round shield. Deal with it whole, thus: when you have taken it and located it well all over with cheese and oil, hang it up in a hot clay oven and then bake it through. Sprinkle with cumin-rubbed salt and grey-green oil, drenching it generously with the divine liquid.
Archestratus 13, Bream in Cheese and Oil. Dalby, Andrew. Sally Grainger, The Classical Cookbook. Los Angelos: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1996.
Yes you should be sorry! and honestly I dont except your apology. I am attacking you because you killed a man that did not need to die and I dont know why in the world you would kill him! what good did it really do for Rome? Yes I am glad I get to become Ruler but still Caesar didnt need to die, him and I were very close and so you better run far away and DONT come back!
ReplyDeleteYou, Brutus, say you killed Caesar for the good of Roma... but was Roma ready for ANARCHY and CIVIL WAR? We are a wonderful people, and the people must decide whether they wish for him to die. Was his death good for only the survival of Roma, to keep to an old oath? The people disagreed with his death, that is why you will die--his death was for the good of everlasting Roma, not for her people!
ReplyDeleteMarcus he was my good friend too and I regret to have allowed you to live. We should have cut you down at the same place as Caesar. Cato you're my father in law!.. Of all people I thought I would at least have your support. The anarchy and civil war that now plague our country are not my fault, would you rather have lived under Caesar's dictatorship? The people of Rome don't understand my reason for killing Caesar nor do you or Marcus. All of his acts that brought wealth to our country are appreciated but they were only to gain popularity and power from the people. His ambition was lurking in the shadows of his glory.
ReplyDeleteMother thank you very much for the recipe, I hope I will get to enjoy it before my end. I love and please talk to Cato. Good bye Mommy...
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