Mommsen believed that Claudius had been an augur who was ordered by a chief pontiff Metellus to inaugurate Sulpicius son of Servius as a priest, that Claudius declined on grounds of a religious technicality, that Claudius was subsequently fined by the chief pontiff, and that Claudius appealed the fine.

The Dutch are very Dutchly open about vice and prostitution. The girls stand in windows; gangs of hair-gelled, shirttailed English boys full of Dutch courage and wind window-shop.

This poseur was riding like a monkey humping a football, but I blew past him.

[…] Stevens wrote symbolic rather than transcriptive poetry.