The same can be said for Prima Florentina, who was sixteen when her husband Orpheus threw her into the Tiber, or Domitilla who was fourteen (and just four months married) when she was kidnapped, assaulted and killed by some ‘men from Pontus’, or Grattius who was murdered by muggers on the Via Salaria between Rome and Castrum Truentinum.2 These people weren’t senators or the children of senators, they weren’t important in the politics of the city of Rome, or descended from ancient, aristocratic families, or owners of immense estates in Ameria, or friends with consuls. They were those who, in
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