The Warty Banker
The wart-faced banker, Marcus Fulvius was a notorious lecher. One day, during their regular sweat in the laconicum, his friend, Ottavius noted his gloomy disposition. “Cheer up, old boy,” he said. “Soon it will be the seventeenth”. Fulvius, however, was not looking forward to the saturnalia. “It will be the usual miserable fest,” he declared. …