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January 23, 2005
A week in Rome: Imperial Lion
Introduction
The Colosseum
Palatine Hill
The Forum
The Pantheon
The Vatican Museum
St. Peter in Chains
Stray cats are all over Rome, and in one park they are even fed by a charity. You see them stalking through the monuments, the last echoes of the ancient Barbary Lions, a weapon of choice the emperors used against naughty Christians in the Circus Maximus. This fellow has the look of that sort of lion.
Posted by Susan the Human at January 23, 2005 9:01 PM
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