Authors: David Wishart
Solid Citizens (29 page)
The poet Catullus calls the Saturnalia
optimus dierum
, ‘best of days’, which more or less sums the thing up.
Very
un-Roman, in many ways – at least, as we think of the Romans – but none the worse for that.
A very merry Christmas to you, when it comes.
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