Dude apparently didnt get to consult, e.g. his personal astrolger Seleucus (pro Weirdo? Oriental? Wojack? AOTA?)

Or he’d have said instead

< Deus, vae, felix fio

(Did i get that right?)

Most felicitous, for tomorrow he could be sure of being free from meeting with people (for surely if there were such a century later, they'd already been there in Vespasian's time) who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious, unsocial.

I hope this isnt directed at me but i was glad to see some HN comments getting unflagged yesterday. Cant expect curmudgeons to become real estate salesmen* overnight..

* et tu, Livy? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curmudgeon

Not directed at you; it was recalling how MAA noted that the reward for being at the very top of a hierarchy is getting to spend your waking hours in the company of the sorts of people who get near the top of hierarchies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930334