And Catus Decianus the Procurator endeavour’d to bring all thir goods within the compass of a new confiscation, by disavowing the remittment of Claudius.

For years, it was one of the most-watched shows among young people, offering a fair share of action, humor, drama, horror, ships (Stydia, anyone?) and frequent lessons on mythological creatures.

[T]he frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks. This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memory proved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which were either compounded for by swallowing an additional bumper, or by paying a small sum towards the reckoning.

I mass 70 kilograms.