Michael Anderson

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In Samnium all was mountainous and austere. Just as the jagged contours of the landscape provided a brutal contrast with the plain below, so too did the character of the people who had to scratch a living from the stony, scrub-clad soil. There were no oysters in Samnium, no heated swimming pools, only lumbering peasants with comical, rustic accents. They practiced witchcraft, wore ugly rings of iron around their necks, and—scandalously—permitted barbers to shave their pubic hair in public. The Romans, needless to say, regarded them with scorn.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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