Thursday, March 12, 2009

Overheard on the subway ...



On the subway today "Octavius was pretty ruthless".


One wonders, is there some office manager in Toronto called Octavius who is harsh on employees or were my fellow passengers thinking of Augustus Caesar?


And if Augustus, what was the lead in and follow up???

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well, he may have been ruthless, but he left a lovely legacy of classical architecture and art in Rome, as I recall correctly from my Roman Art class in 2nd year. I vaguely recall penning a paper "Art as Propaganda in the Age of Augustus"

Pareta said...

hahahaha - that's TOO funny. I could only imagine to what they were referring!