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I spent forever finding just the right words to use there..."piss" is in the King James Bible! But somehow "laundry room" slipped through...I changed it to "fullonica" to make up for that anachronism. Yamazaki gets an award for the most obscure reference for "Kribana," a word that only appears...

Oh no, people zeroed in on a couple of ambiguous readings..."無知" is usually "ignorant" but I used "modest" as A) it's the word used in the Octavia and Tacitus to describe her and carries an ambiguity of whether modesty or ambition is more prized to Nero; Octavia was promoted as an arranged...

Now we know who's driving Truck-kun

Thanks for your inputs all! @freakofnature couldn't be, because he quotes that passage a few pages later ("地震を引き起こす 地中の空気 によって陸地が 冠水するように なつているのか...またそれが引く時は 大地の内部に 弓き込まれて いるのか" If you want to see what Latin looks like in Japanese)... I found "while the sea is stirred up from the very bottom...

It is, however, a fact that Pliny hated Nero and called him the "enemy of mankind" and wrote a whole book about his reign, so it makes for good manga drama!

>it's an onsen filler episode I spent forever trying to find a passage in Pliny that corresponds to his line "底はせり上る事もあるからいつも引き波から始まるとは限らないが…" on the first page, but in the end I just had to try to make some sense of it as best I could.

@tzarye14 I have the first 5 volumes as raws, so we shall see!

@Somebody Nero is 24 so it must be some time in mid-AD 62, same as the Octavia play. @sylvacoer Pliny was just about to come up with continental drift theory before he got interrupted. Next time it's the cross, Felix!

Additional notes: Nero uses the archaic pre-Meiji form of "Mother" so I set it in Etruscan. This whole scene is loosely based upon the ancient Latin play Octavia (as well as a line or two in Suetonius and Tacitus): http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/seneca_younger/octavia_e.html (I hope...

I appreciate the effort made to harmonize the manga text with the original English book!

Unexpected Nekojiru Dango reference Pliny never says that Claudius actually speared the Orca himself, but I'll allow him some dramatic license

@sylvacoer I need to read this and all of those 19th century Roman romances, from Quo Vadis to The Last Days of Pompeii, being only familiar with the literary clichés of their pompous prose...

Mari wanted to make a serious-ish manga set in Rome where she didn't have to tell jokes all the time. https://www.shinchosha.co.jp/plinivs/taidan/

@freakofnature I spent an hour trying to figure out how to conjugate "Praefecti Vicarius Siciliae," hope I didn't mess it up...Yamazaki's Latin leaves a lot to be desired and she makes frequent mistakes in the Katakana. @LoktarOgar Mostly the French and Polish editions cross-referenced with as...

Eucles and Felix must just instinctively know Pliny is a nerd to backtalk a Prefect like that and not get the cross.

You need a damn doctorate in Greco-Roman studies to translate this thing, but fortunately I can fake it with Google.

I waited so long for this to be translated (some anon was going to work from the Spanish edition, but I haven't heard from him) that I ended up just doing it myself. If anyone can help with J translation, hit me up. Biggest mistake was calling Pomponianus' wife "Sir" which I changed to...

Pochi's ancestor

Thanks for reading, kids! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpWJm2iB18M

Editor's note (belated): "Milvian Bridge" was an inference from the obviously Byzantine/Greek shields in the painting, which proved to be completely wrong. "Alexander Anderson" as the letter signee is an egregious error. And Maxwell uses "fall" instead of "autumn," but this can be excused...