Most of the world today is governed by Caesars. Men and more and more treated as things.
Torture is ubiquitous.
Pool of water. So far so good. One's laborious translation was making awful sense. The erotic mental image became surreal. Another victory for the Loeb Library's sly translator, J.C. Rolfe, who, correctly anticipating the pruriency of schoolboy readers, left Suetonius's gaudier passages in the hard original.