Revelations of an Ancient

Pliny the Elder read my blog! Why didn't I think that would happen?

Anyway, he wasn't too upset. He liked the fishy evidence. "Ah bogues!" he reminisced, "how we used to love them. And to think the fish sauce proved the date of the eruption. Of course my nephew wouldn't get it wrong. He was very fond of me. I died in it, you recall?"

I said that yes I did recall, but how on earth did he?

He looked wise, and didn't answer.

Then he said, "That trick coin Titus minted early! I wondered where it went....."