Plinivs - Vol. 8 Ch. 50 - Alexandria
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Hmmm, brewed hemlock becomes deadly after 48-72 hours, so depending on your point of view Seneca either got lucky or very unlucky. He probably got the idea from Plato that hemlock poisoning was fast and "dignified" but in reality it's a really nasty way to die. The sword to the carotid artery is faster and probably a lot less painful.
In this manga, Seneca is a close friend of Pliny, so Felix would have met him at some point. IRL the two knew of each other but didn't associate closely. Pliny left the army sometime in the first years of Nero's reign and proceeded to distance himself from the emperor, seeking no official post.
Alternatively, like the manga portrays (accurately, lol) Seneca was filthy rich. This, and his closeness to Nero, made him famous (or infamous) in Rome because he's supposed to be a Stoic philosopher yet he was very greedy in acquiring wealth.
Oh, I just realized that Mari-sensei made a rather glaring mistake in her depiction of how scrolls were stored. Scrolls don't have spines like books do, so there must be a way to easily identify which scroll is which in a collection or a library. There are several ways to do this, but in a library as big as Alexandria it would have been by attaching a ribbon to the scroll handle. The ribbon has an abbreviated title of the scroll that makes it easy for someone to pick out the specific scroll they're looking for from the stack. That scene on page 17 should really be showing ribbons covering all the scroll racks.
