My ankle is a throbbing mess, though the woman who is not Ana brought me ice. I must ask her name.
They've all gone to Assisi and the other few to the city, and I have to hop on one foot when I have to move [edit: use the bathroom]. It's me and Livy for a few hours. I've started with the introduction since I have the time, and made it up to the Sabines before I fell asleep.
The Sabine episode reminded me of the Colosseum. Being in the Colosseum is absolutely flooring. It feels like a sports stadium, and the stone and brickwork and architecture is beautiful, and then you think- this was made (at least, used) to watch slaves be eaten by starved lions, not to watch baseball games. Horror, except standing inside, it feels twice as horrible to imagine the Colosseum gone, or never being built.
What they did to the Sabines was thoroughly horrible, except if the history of Rome were any different, that'd be horrible, too.
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