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Is that still allowed?

Maybe it's a bit of a stretch.

Maybe he would have hated it. But in telling this story of Agrippiness in lives of the Stoics, which you can grab at the painted porch, I'll link to it in

today's show notes, I couldn't help but quote one of my favorite Alison Chain's lyrics. If I can't

be my own, I'd feel better dead."

Agrippinus had inherited from his father, we're told by Tacitus, an almost genetic hatred

of tyrants. He refused to kneel to Nero or even attend his parties. When someone asked him

why he didn't keep a lower profile, given the environment of informers and enforcers,

Agrippinus explained that he was like the red thread in an otherwise plain garment,

that he stood out in order to make things more beautiful. In other words, Agrippinus was his own man,

even at great cost. He would be sent into exile for it. He would be nearly

killed for it. But to be anything else, to compromise to mute his colors, well, he wouldn't

even think of it, because there are some things worse than death. What a wonderful lesson

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