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Chapter IV: CCXXXXVII (row 3)

on April 22, 2015
Chapter: chapter IV
Characters: Elisa, Josephus, Menander, Mus's Mater
Location: Herculaneum, Rome, Shrine of Venus
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Discussion (24) ¬

  1. avatar
    David Watson
    April 22, 2015, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    Oh dear: here it comes! Auuugh!

  2. avatar
    carping in the diem
    April 22, 2015, 9:56 am | # | Reply

    I’m not sure about that. I think there were several flows, before Pompeii bit it, unless this is Herculaneum. Is this the boatshed at Herculaneum, or the garden at Pompeii? Not to mention the poor family in the villa with the heavily pregnant woman.

  3. avatar
    David Watson
    April 22, 2015, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    I think this is the boatshed at Herculaneum. At least that’s where Felix started. Or perhaps I’m wrong-wrong-wrong, and the Artist will correct me.

  4. avatar
    klio
    April 22, 2015, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    Hi. It’s all Herculaneum, except where the imperial family are (probably Misenum). Stones and various grades of dust were coming down all around the bay, but Herculaneum didn’t get the turn-your-lungs-to-cement burial in volcanic dust that Pompeii did (buried in layers). Herculaneum got to see the main collapse of the cloud the volcano sent up.

    So…Felix was sending people to the boathouses (under the shrine of Venus), before he tried to correct that and tell them to get a ship and get out.

  5. avatar
    Marcia Morrison
    April 22, 2015, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

    Oh Klio! I am thrilled to see that SPQR Blues is back, and crashing along with much drama under the pall of volcanic clouds! I’ve re-read the whole comic several times during your hiatus, all the while hoping you would come back to these characters I’ve grown to love. And Sweetums. I’m so glad Sweetums seemed to be making for safety too.

    • avatar
      klio
      April 22, 2015, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      I’m happy to have you along for the big, bumpy ride! There will be a lot of crashing this week….

      I made a promise years(!!) ago that Sweetums would paddle out safely ๐Ÿ˜€

  6. avatar
    Typeminer
    April 22, 2015, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetums is an even better swimmer than Felix, I’ll bet.

    So much excitement. ๐Ÿ™‚

    • avatar
      klio
      April 23, 2015, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Sweetums is probably napping on a comfy beach somewhere by now.

  7. avatar
    David Watson
    April 23, 2015, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    And Pliny Sr. will be found napping on a beach in the morning!

    • avatar
      klio
      April 23, 2015, 9:46 am | # | Reply

      That nap was in fact what one might call permanent.

      Sweetums will be ambling off to find some fish in the morning.

  8. avatar
    David Watson
    April 23, 2015, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    In Pliny Sr’s case, I suppose no good deed goes unpunished. Sweetums, having forsworn good deeds will have breakfast!
    Sometimes, one is well advised to mind their own business.

    • avatar
      Iagoba
      April 23, 2015, 1:40 pm | # | Reply

      Such a small world!
      Crossbows.net? Nice pieces, I hope one year I will own one of those.
      Going back (more or less) to Romans, I have shoot or helped to shoot several pieces of Roman artillery, including a little inswinging cheiroballista…

  9. avatar
    Iagoba
    April 23, 2015, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    I’m having some problem when I try to post, stating that what I’m writing is duplicated. ๐Ÿ˜›

    • avatar
      klio
      April 23, 2015, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

      It gives me that sometimes too, especially when I comment from my phone. I’m not sure why. The comments usually do go through, though.

      • avatar
        susan mudgett
        April 30, 2015, 10:03 am | # | Reply

        i hvae that problem and my comments do not f\go through. using a mac desktop.

        • avatar
          klio
          April 30, 2015, 11:19 am | # | Reply

          I’m so sorry about that! I just updated the software, but I got the “duplicate comment” message again (using Safari or Firefox on a Mac laptop). I’ll check around and see if anyone has been able to troubleshoot this.

          ETA: It just happened with this comment!

  10. avatar
    CJG
    April 23, 2015, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

    Menander!
    Well, he was braver I think than he knew.

    Also, little sister I seeming fond of her brother’s slave. Would he have been considered part of the family?

    • avatar
      klio
      April 23, 2015, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

      Josephus’s family in general treated their servants at least as respected staff (though there may not have been enough opportunities in the story to show that).

      I’d like to say that, after it all, Menander won Elisa over, especially once she saw how genuinely well he and littler sister Aster got along.

      • avatar
        susan mudgett
        April 27, 2015, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        Menander also saved Felix from falling out a 4th floor window.

        • avatar
          klio
          April 27, 2015, 11:29 am | # | Reply

          You’re right! Felix would have been killed in the earthquake in Pompeii.

          Or severely broken.

          No, probably killed by the fall.

          • avatar
            susan mudgett
            April 27, 2015, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

            i figure felix would have been killed by the fall.

            • avatar
              klio
              April 27, 2015, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

              Felix would probably believe his goddess made sure Menander would be there and awake to save him ๐Ÿ™‚

  11. avatar
    carping in the diem
    April 26, 2015, 9:44 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Menander. Such a nice bloke. At least the blow from the horses’ hoof may have spared him the agony soon to come.
    Alas, the little “wife-to-be” has not been, it seems, barring any miracles.

    • avatar
      klio
      April 26, 2015, 9:58 pm | # | Reply

      Well, they say the end at Herculaneum was so fast, although there may have been just enough time for the brain to understand what it was seeing if one were turned in the right direction, there would not have been enough time to react when the hot cloud hit or, they say and one hopes, to feel anything at all.

      If little wife-to-be keeps her head down, she probably won’t know what’s happening….

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