Nero unboxes an iphone
A Memorandum for the Imperial Archives Set down by P. Aelius Felix, scribe attached to the Palatine household, in the consulship then current, on the day an object of singular manufacture was delivered into the Emperor’s hands. In the afternoon, when the Emperor Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus had withdrawn from the more tedious petitions and was in a humour inclined toward novelty, there arrived at the palace gates a messenger bearing a parcel of unusual aspect. It was not of cedar nor of any costly wood, but of pressed brown board, bound in string with the cleanliness of a thing made by rule rather than by craft. Upon one face was marked, in thick black letters, a name unknown to our shops and warehouses: AMAZON Certain of the attendants, ever ready to display learning, spoke of the Amazons—the warlike women of legend—and others of a river said to be so great that it runs like a sea through foreign lands. But why either should be written upon a parcel addressed to...