Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish
“This Is Caligula, Mrs. Williams, and He’d Like To Personally Apologize For Putting Those Fire Ants in Your Tunic Last Week. Isn’t That Right, Caligula?,” 1795
Oil on canvas
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/// Cornelia was best of Rome’s mothers,
a paragon, peer to no others.
She was questioned by fools
why she didn’t wear jewels:
“My gems are my girl and her brothers.”
/// As “Mom of the Gracchi,” no chances
were taken by having romances.
When that girl came to plea,
kneeling, feeling her knee,
Cornelia refused her advances.
/// “My big son, (the one showing dejection),
had been born by Cæsarian section.
I fought Julius’s claim
that he’d trademarked the name,
while I also was fighting infection.”