I actually kind of like the peaches scene – I don’t think Pullo is being callous or unfeeling (after all, unlike all the other guys sent to kill the senators, Pullo only takes some peaches - after he asks for them politely – as opposed to looting the man’s house, raping his daughter – poor Jocasta! – etc.) And I think that some of this comes out in his conversation with Eirene later on, because look, he’s a hired killer again, even though his boss is Octavian now, and not Erastes Fulmen, and so he thinks back to a time when he was a killer on more honorable terms in the ranks fo the Thirteenth :P
And I find the scene in Cicero’s garden just quite wonderful actually – the Republic dies like this, quietly, in a sunlit garden, and the killing at Philippi is really just the aftermath.
And absolutely, yes to this idea that Pullo wants something more than to just be remembered as the "Number Two Man" - I think again his conversation with Eirene is telling where he thinks he might be a centurion or a legate if he rejoined the legions. I did love her saying she was "preglant" by the way :P
I loved the picnic too – it was so wonderfully … strange. “Oh, I’m off to kill someone, let’s have a picnic.”
As for Agrippa, his family came from the equestrian rank and were quite wealthy, but no, I don’t think his grandfather was a slave. They were sort of middle-to-lower-class country folk (think of Vorenus as he might have been as magistrate.)
P.S. Your package came yesterday (and I've put it to some use - icons in my latest post!) Although I am having a lot of difficulty figuring out how to do certain things - it's very complicated! - so I might be bugging you for advice. You are such a sweetie-pie! Thank you SO much (and for your extremely clear instructions!)
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And I find the scene in Cicero’s garden just quite wonderful actually – the Republic dies like this, quietly, in a sunlit garden, and the killing at Philippi is really just the aftermath.
And absolutely, yes to this idea that Pullo wants something more than to just be remembered as the "Number Two Man" - I think again his conversation with Eirene is telling where he thinks he might be a centurion or a legate if he rejoined the legions. I did love her saying she was "preglant" by the way :P
I loved the picnic too – it was so wonderfully … strange. “Oh, I’m off to kill someone, let’s have a picnic.”
As for Agrippa, his family came from the equestrian rank and were quite wealthy, but no, I don’t think his grandfather was a slave. They were sort of middle-to-lower-class country folk (think of Vorenus as he might have been as magistrate.)
P.S. Your package came yesterday (and I've put it to some use - icons in my latest post!) Although I am having a lot of difficulty figuring out how to do certain things - it's very complicated! - so I might be bugging you for advice. You are such a sweetie-pie! Thank you SO much (and for your extremely clear instructions!)