A quick note on mules in Rome
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lesbiassparrow(Other post coming soon, but mules weren't getting enough love.)
Pliny the Elder thought you could break mules by feedng them a lot of wine. I guess that's one way of doing it.
Also he has a hilarious recipe for a love charm that involves plucking three hairs from a female mule's tail. While she is, um, having sex. I suspect that one didn't do this more than once.
ETA: As hyenas and Cicero are currently even, the next post will be on hyenas. With possibly crocodile dung tossed in for good measure. No word on whether Cicero ever used it, but as it was used in rouge and Cicero doesn't strike me as a man to use rouge (though as there is a little evidence that some orators used to paint their faces for court, perhaps he did).
Pliny the Elder thought you could break mules by feedng them a lot of wine. I guess that's one way of doing it.
Also he has a hilarious recipe for a love charm that involves plucking three hairs from a female mule's tail. While she is, um, having sex. I suspect that one didn't do this more than once.
ETA: As hyenas and Cicero are currently even, the next post will be on hyenas. With possibly crocodile dung tossed in for good measure. No word on whether Cicero ever used it, but as it was used in rouge and Cicero doesn't strike me as a man to use rouge (though as there is a little evidence that some orators used to paint their faces for court, perhaps he did).
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Date: 2011-04-02 10:18 pm (UTC)Indeed. I bet that's what they all say... :p