I Claudius ep1 a Touch of Murder (7/10)

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Film & Animation

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• Claudius
• Rome
• tiberius
• augustus
• livia
• touch
• of
• murder
• poison

[Radders123]

It is true that Britons make very poor slaves!

[spinozareader]

Love it that the boys are playing the original edition of the game Risk ;-)

[alexei06]

@jusproc corn Noun, OE (Brit.) grain, esp. wheat. any cereal crop

[Jemmer1000]

@CDspartan21 they were ahead of their time

[Jemmer1000]

@Barciad well, that's this story...

[iorixs]

augustus was a man of virtue that is why he ruled for so long

[Freefalldreams]

@jusproc Something involving a "sounds-like" in Latin, perhaps? I don't know more than a few words of Latin, but it would sort of fit the standard of Latin-turned-English if "corn" came from the word for "wheat" and "wheat" came from...something else entirely.

[AlanWattParrot]

@Barciad Tacitus would disagree. He had 'vicious vices' and power gave him the license to act thereupon - power destroyed Tiberius he thought - without it he would've remained the saturnine but upright man he was before attaining it....if you love Graves's books you'll love Tacitus (and Plutarch)

[Barciad]

I feel so sorry for Tiberius. A decent man ruined by his appalling mother.

[jusproc]

@mosprime2 It was really wheat, which was the main for Rome; corn was from the Americas, I don't know why Graves replaced wheat with corn.

[CDspartan21]

I like the bust of septimius severus thats behind Livia in the garden.

[Falor5151]

That look Augustus gives Drusus at 4:33 is so creepy. Reminds you that behind that jolly facade is a ruthless chessmaster.