Poison IV, though, just made the victim extremely itchy.
I was looking on something on Facebook about male prostitution in the anciet rome, and i find this " Whoever makes love with boys and girls without limit or measure does not manage their money well " so i thought i could be posted here, cause i think is something that even now can be called a fact, if you go on dates with de double of people it means the double of money lol.
Let me know what you think :D
I'm sure men can be included in the question too, but I wanted to know if there was such a culture of "eating good to look good" like there is in modern times. I reckon this would only apply to upper class citizens and lower classes were famished most of the time - but is there any evidence of "detoxing" or eating "healthy" foods in order to achieve standards of ancient physical beauty? I understand they would have known foods that give them "health benefits" but I'm asking in an aesthetic sense.
For the sake of the question, put aside the dubious dates portrayed in Luke for the census of Quirinius. I'm more interested in the documentary / preservation aspect of it. Could those records still have existed in Justin's day and would anybody have been able to go view them? Or is he just blowing smoke?
The text in question is in Justin Martyr's First Apology:
> CHAPTER XXXIV -- PLACE OF CHRIST'S BIRTH FORETOLD.
> And hear what part of earth He was to be born in, as another prophet, Micah, foretold. He spoke thus: "And thou, Bethlehem, the land of Judah, art not the least among the princes of Judah; for out of thee shall come forth a Governor, who shall feed My people." Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Jesus Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing made under Cyrenius, your first procurator in Judaea.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
> These sundials were designed to tell time on the go-but it turns out they really excelled at being a snazzy gadget.
> "If the sun is shining, you are carrying with you one portable gadget or instrument that is your own, a very personal thing, and you can supposedly rely on it to tell you what the time is," says Richard Talbert, a historian at the University of North Carolina who has written a new book about the devices, called Roman Portable Sundials.
> Ancient Romans didn't measure time in our 60-minute hours; instead, they divided daylight and darkness into 12 increments each, a system they adopted from the Egyptians.
> "They don't make appointments and get impatient when you're 15 minutes late," says Alexander Jones, curator of an exhibition called "Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity" at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York that explores the ancient relationship with time.
> Most sundials weren't detailed beyond hours anyway, notes Denis Savoie, an astronomer who specializes in sundials.
> Portable, pocketwatch-like models offered more freedom, allowing owners to travel and still have some semblance of the time, but came with more constraints-and not just the price tag.
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Poison IV just made the victim extremely itchy.
