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The Vestal Virgins: priestesses of Vesta who maintained the sacred flame of Rome; their box in the Colosseum was one of the most prestigious. ↩
Publius Clodius Pulcher (93–52 BC): a notoriously beautiful and scandalous Roman politician, Marie's ironic stand-in for a Roman Soroka. ↩
Venus Genitrix: "Venus the Mother-goddess," ancestress of the Julian line; a standard sculptural type. ↩
San Pietro in Vincoli: "Saint Peter in Chains" — the church on the Esquiline Hill famous for housing both the chains of Saint Peter and Michelangelo's Moses. ↩
Terza sera (Italian): the third evening subscription — one of the two aristocratic nights at the Roman opera. Prima sera was the other; the second and fourth evenings (seconda sera, quarta sera) were for the general public. ↩
The temple of Janus Geminus in the Forum: its doors were opened during wartime and closed in peacetime. Marie has the usage reversed. ↩