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Those About to Die Recap: Ride or Die
Scorpus insists that drinking, whoring, and racing go hand in hand in hand and, honestly, he’s right.
Rather than continue to weasel and wriggle and prevaricate, he not only accepts his fate but encourages his surprisingly genuinely saddened wife, Antonia, to denounce him publicly in order to save the reputation and fortune of their family. Well, in order to successfully save her son Kwame from the far superior fighter Flamma in the arena, she sneaks into his room while he’s with a woman — grunting into her like a rutting bull, amusingly — and poisons both their glasses. At the same time, he’s a gifted politician whose ability to identify the desires of the masses and write well about them transports his imperial father, Vespasian, into gales of impressed laughter in a very effective flashback.
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