It’s Tuesday, Where Are You? / Teaser Tuesdays

I’m taking a tour of Rome circa AD 200, with the aid of what amounts to a Lonely Planet guidebook for time-travellers.

Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Peter Matyszak.

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:

• Grab your current read.
  
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
  
• Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
  
• You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from - that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

Anyone with goods to dispose of might go to a designated commercial area and set up his pitch, but most leave this job to professional auctioneers. (Though the emperor Caligula himself once raised funds this way - not unexpectedly getting excellent prices from his terrified audience.)

From Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Peter Matyszak, p. 68.