This s the annals of the pontifs not Tacitus' so it needs to be corrected

Lucilius, to whom all these letters are addressed

It might be better just to cut this - it's a complicated issue and class and free or not status comes into it as well and I don't know that his is the place to go into that. YOu might link the reader to a relevant section in sexuality instead?

Will dig this up.

No - I think it is fine. I would lean towards putting homophobic or racist or violence behinds cuts than this. Just talking about sex and whores isn't enough.

I would leave this lower case

I know that someone also used an older translation of the following martial poem. This one is mine and updated so should replace it

The lesbian Philaenis buggers boys and, more savage than a husband’s lust, she pounds on eleven girls a day. And with her dress tied up she plays with a handball, and covers herself with sand, and with her arm easily swings weights heavy enough for sodomites/strongmen, and covered with dust from the foul arena, she is flogged by an oiled up coach, and doesn’t she dine or lie down for dinner before she has vomited seven pints of unmixed wine, and she only thinks it decent to return to drinking when she has eaten sixteen steaks, After all this, when she goes at it she does not suck pricks. She thinks that far too unmanly - but she regularly devours the groins of girls. May the Gods give you back your sanity, Philaenis, since you think it manly to go down on women. Martial, Epigrams 7.67

where to place this? some of these parts are getting rather large and not very defined - not sure if that is an issue. Would be interested to hear what you all feel after some time working on this.

This translation needs to be corrected

This material needs to be integrated with the other matieral on this topic

This chapter needs to get connected to the other matieral on gladiators

maybe should go elsewhere?

Added some material to this. Am now wondering how to manage the bibliography as it will be different for the two sections (his defense speech and his novel.)