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Aurelius Victor

Aurelius Victor

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Oct 23, 2026

Kate ListerHOST
22:58
This is Juvenal, isn't it? This is the writer, or is it?
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
23:04
It's both Juvenal and Pliny, and then a later source called Aurelius Victor, who is super interesting, but writing about 250 years later.
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
23:13
Our first one chronologically would be Pliny, who's writing about 30 years after her death.
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
23:18
And he talks about, Pliny is an encyclopedist.

7 MINS LATER

Kate ListerHOST
30:22
Someone would have noticed that.
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
30:23
Yeah.
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
30:24
And why you definitely know this didn't happen is because our source for this, a bloke called Aurelius Victor, says that she compels men to attend this brothel, which is being serviced by elite Roman women and maidens.
Alexander MeddingsGUEST
30:35
And I think if you've learned anything from especially recent history, like Giselle Pellicot and the Cornell Seven, it's that men, given half an invitation, do not need compelling to take advantage of female bodies.

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