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[dhampyresa]

I only just figured out how to properly put on and wear my binder. I am Le Big Silly.

I'm gonna try and see if I can start going to the pool two times a week. I want those sweet gainz, brah.

I think I finally worked out the biggest block I was having with the plotting of my comic? Maybe? Now if only I could figure out how to draw around the cat, lmao

I'm still mad about a fight with a friend and so I am particularly crotchety and unsociable lately. Just imagine a cat hiding under furniture and hissing or clawing at anyone coming near and that's basically me.

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know what year the Quintus Fabius Maximus who was consul in 213 BC (ie, not Verrucosus | Cunctator, but his son) was born? I looked it up and couldn't find anything, but just in case. Author can have little a murder of Romans. As a treat. etc

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[sovay]

On a completely unrelated note, does anyone know what year the Quintus Fabius Maximus who was consul in 213 BC (ie, not Verrucosus | Cunctator, but his son) was born?

I can see that trying to work out his age from the cursus honorum is not going to work, because he did the whole thing in a back-to-back slingshot and in any case I don't believe the minimum ages had been codified by law in the third century. I know he died before 203 BCE; Cicero praised the father's funeral oration for the son. I'll see if I can find anything about the other date.

[dhampyresa]

trying to work out his age from the cursus honorum is not going to work, because he did the whole thing in a back-to-back slingshot
You see my problem.

I don't believe the minimum ages had been codified by law in the third century
You're right; it was in 180 BCE which is just slightly too late for my purposes.

I'd be very grateful if you found anything!

[senmut]

No later than 255 BCE, right? If he was consul in his year. Unless I am misremembering.

[dhampyresa]

Sadly the minimum age for consulship wasn't set yet at the time. Funnily enough I calculated the average of the first consulships of consuls between 225-201BCE and went with that for now. It came out at 41, hahaha

[finch]

Yay for multiple kinds of figuring things out!

[dhampyresa]

Thank you!

[yhlee]

Good luck with the comic!

[dhampyresa]

<3

[lauradi7dw]

We don't know each other. I was attracted by the investigation into the toga cost, and I started reading older entries. Is it too rude to ask whether the binder in the link is actually much different from a tight sports bra?

[dhampyresa]

I suppose that'd depend on how tight the sports bra is and how squishable your breast tissue is. I have a size M and my chest wraparound goes from 93cm to 84cm -- I'm a somewhat serious swimmer though so my chest and back muscles are bigger than average (best description I can come up with is that invisible unflexed but visible flexed). A good comparaison would be that the binder compresses roughly as much as pressing on my chest with both hands interlinked as much as possible. Hope this makes and is useful! Happy to answer further questions