Re: RV: Old English

BP Jonsson wrote:

> Nothing indefinite or political about his offences: he had been screwing
> Augustus's daughter, or at least been at parties of hers where people
> screwed around.
If that was an offence at all, it was a political one: not all of Julia's
lovers got exile.  Perhaps the administration feared that as a poet he
would spread the word too widely.

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