[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

When Octavia arrived at the House of the Virgins with the sacrifice, there were only four virgins sitting in the courtyard.

"Spulia is going to take care of the holy fire, and Cecilia just finished being whipped by the high priest yesterday." Conesia, wearing a white gauze, explained lightly: "Beriana is still reading the Virgin Mary in the room." According to the rules, she is an extremely smart child. Although the high priest has not officially approved Beliana to be a member of the House of Virgins, we can see the glory of the goddess Vesta from her."

"Do you want to meet her?"

"Yes." Octavia saw a strange adult virgin leading a girl one or two years younger than her out of the white building.

The two did not wear veils, but wore the same white dresses as the newlyweds, representing their identities.

"May the glory of Goddess Vesta shine on you, Octavia of the Claudius family." Beliana was extremely nervous and wanted to salute Octavia, but she was caught by Octavia at the moment she nodded. Via stopped.

"Brides in Rome don't need to bow to mortals." Octavia tried her best to make her words appear friendly and not flattering, which made Beliana loosen her frown, and even the curvature of her shoulders was slightly flattened.

"If you have something private to say, I can lead the virgins to avoid it for a while." Konessia said very caringly.

"It's okay." Octavia glanced at the virgins present, intending to build a wave of goodwill for herself: "Goddess Vesta, if I still have something to say before her human incarnation, then go home , and will have nothing to hide in front of the goddess statue."

Speaking of this, Octavia also specially humorously said: "I am just a little girl who prays for the blessing of the goddess. I don't have the face of Augustus, so why should I ask for Jupiter's rights?"

Octavia’s words were to deliberately elevate the status of the virgins of Vesta, and at the same time satirize the priests in the temple and the old antiques in the House. They clearly cannot achieve the achievements of Augustus, but they must be suppressed through disciplinary powers. Vestal virgin status.

This undoubtedly made the Vesta virgins present empathize with them and relieved a little.

So for a while, the atmosphere in the House of the Virgins became a lot more relaxed, and it was completely gone from the strangeness that Octavia had when she first arrived.

"It would be great if I had a tongue blessed by Mercury like you." Beliana, who was a little embarrassed, grabbed the fabric on her knees and shyly said to Octavia: "Please don't Mind my stupidity and vulgarity. Goddess Vitus, I wished to crown you with words, but Minerva lamented."

"Mercury is only the patron saint of thieves and shepherds. He does not have the might of Minerva on the battlefield, nor the nobility of Minerva in the pantheon." Octavia's gray-blue eyes made Beria Na had the illusion of being immersed in the Aegean Sea.

At this moment, the heart of the young virgin seemed to be tightly grasped by the siren's singing, but she did not have the firmness and wisdom of Odysseus, let alone the lira of Apollo, so she could only dodge like a fawn in haste. Octavia's gaze.

"I believe that a girl who has the courage to become a Roman bride must possess the virtues of Minerva and Vitus at the same time." Octavia gently held Beliana's cheek, and wiped her face that she didn't know when she fell. tears.

"If we want to count rewards, then the greatest reward that can be obtained by noble virtue is glory." (Cicero's famous quote)" Octavia's voice became lighter and lighter: "Berliana, you have an incomparable glory, so don’t let good times bury your talent, okay?”

"Okay." Beliana only felt that the place touched by Octavia was as hot as Vulcan's furnace, which made her complete a transformation during tempering: "It's just that I want to listen to your voice more. Please allow me to visit you from time to time."

"I'm very happy." Octavia smiled and said, "It will be an honor in my life to be friends with Virgin Vitas."

Konessia on the side coughed lightly, which caught Octavia's attention.

"My spies in the temple are ready to receive you, but do you really want to go there yourself?" Conesia gave Octavia a coin engraved with Jupiter when she went out. and Ganymede's gold coins, and said a little embarrassedly: "You also know what kind of virtue the garbage in the temple is. I suggest you let Elius or little Titus go instead of you."

Speaking of this, Konessia showed an expression of anger and pity, and even his tone was a little pessimistic: "Those little boys living behind the temple are lower than Quedran Talière, more liberal than Doris, prodigal, but doing the work of serving the gods."

"Those priests can't follow Jupiter's example and kidnap Ganymedes, so they can only pretend to be false gods on innocent boys." Octavia looked at Konessia's indignation and hesitated. : "Perhaps Augustan's moral law was right."

"Of course he was right, the Romans are the Romans, and no one can bring the Orientals and the conquered Greeks into a city guarded by the goddess Vitus." Conesia is a new school For this reason, she looks down on her younger brother (Nero's father) who died of alcoholism (Nero's father), and her niece (Messalina), who is desolate, prostitute, and immoral.This is also the main reason why she particularly prefers Octavia.

Octavia felt that her aunt and grandmother had double standards and were incomprehensible.

Conesia denounced the depravity and absurdity of the leadership class, but felt that the forced actions of the poor class should be forgiven and understood by the public, and even pardoned many civilians who were sentenced to death as Vitas virgins with the free folk.

For this reason, Octavia didn't know what words to use to evaluate her aunt and grandmother.

However, in the eyes of the public, Conessia is a noble and kind virgin, worthy of her blood and responsibility.

It is precisely because of Conessia's multiple pardons that her reputation among the common people once surpassed that of the high priest, which made the other party feel crisis and dissatisfaction.

If the Vestal virgins in the councils and courts outshone the priests of Jupiter, how long can the statues of the god-kings in the pantheon represent power?

And by that time, high priests of civilian origin like them will be beaten back to their original form and rejected by the privileged class.

At this moment, the chief priest felt a responsibility he had never had before.

He will never allow the voice of the gods to come only from the mouth of a virgin with noble blood.

And when Octavia, under the leadership of Elius, saw the virtue "behind" the temple for the first time, she really had the urge to poke her eyes.

Under the bright moonlight, the long-haired boys with garlands are wearing thin penulas, so that devout visitors can easily touch their bodies.

"Are you really going in?" Elius looked at Octavia, who was dressed as a teenager in Tunica, with some embarrassment, and the latter was as calm as ever: "Everyone is here, can you not go in?" ?”

The author has something to say:

I entered this article into V, and I don't know if it can improve.After all, I am a street writer!Diligence can make up for it! (You're thinking shit.)

Beliana: It's a feeling of heartbeat.

Octavia: It's getting cold, it's time for the High Priest to die.

Ganymedes: The beautiful young prince who was abducted by Zeus poured wine for the gods at the banquet, which is also the origin of Aquarius.

Quedrantalier: Ancient Roman prostitutes, a kind of female class, very low-level, their reward is a piece of bread or a pot of olive oil.

Doris: A low-level prostitute who solicits customers outside the brothel, often walking around naked.

Tunica: A garment worn by youths in Roman times.

Penula: It's actually a cloak.

Please read my original article! (Although it is Danmei) The fandom crossing the circle is going to die.

There is no information, and I can’t find the information of the Roman Ancestral Temple, so these are all made up by me in some film and television circles, murals, and cup carvings.