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| | Nero 18 |
 | | As the woman quietly slipped away to appraise her husband of the situation, realising that, if he responded quickly, he should be able to catch the naked 16 year-olds in the middle of their unauthorised union, her smirk broadened at the thought of what was to come. |
 | | He worried that the news, that he was not involved with a girl in Rome because he was otherwise enthralled with a young barbarian eunuch slave, might induce fatal heart palpitations in his female parent. |
 | | She had heard, from fellow female gossips in Volsinii, exaggerated but, to her, thoroughly convincing and alarming tales about the money-grabbing harlots of Rome, who were supposed to be forever looking out for handsome, rich but gullible bachelors to ensnare. |
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