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at Messalina, numquam solutior luxu, adulto autumno simulacrum vindemiae per domum celebrabat.
Meanwhile Messalina, never more unrestrained in her extravagance, with autumn well advanced was celebrating a show of the grape harvest throughout the house.
urgebantur prela, fluebat vinum.
Presses were being squeezed, wine was flowing.
feminae pellibus accinctae adsultabant ut sacrificantes vel insanientes Bacchae; ipsa crine fluxo thrysum quatiebat, iuxtaque Silius hedera vinctus, cothurnos gerens iaciebat caput, strephente circum procaci choro.
Women dressed in skins were jumping about like Bacchants performing sacrifices or in a frenzy; Messalina herself, with hair streaming, was tossing his head, with a noisy, undisciplined crown around.
ferent Vettium Valentem, cum in praealtum arborem per lasciviam ascendisset, ceteris interrogantibus quid asciperet respondisse tempestatem ab Ostia atrocem -
They say that Vettius Valens, when for fun he climbed a very high tree and the others asked him what he could see up there, replied that there was a terrible storm coming from Ostia -
sive coeperat ea species, seu forte lapsa vox postea in praesagium vertit.
either the sight of it had indeed begun, or a chance phrase turned into a prophecy afterwards.
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