courtesy of my Rome reading list:

[lauzeta]

And so we leave Pliny, sitting up late at night, laboring away at the Natural History, with a bra on his head.

- Amy Richlin, "Pliny's Brassiere," in Roman Sexualities, ed. Hallett, Judith P., and Marilyn B. Skinner, 1997, p. 216.

Comments

[lauzeta]

The thought is actually kind of giving me one.

[lalaithlockhart]

Whaaaa-at??

[lauzeta]

Headache remedy, apparently.