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From: Diana Wright <nauplion@charm.net>
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I have been taken to task by a private correspondent for calling
Pollione Norma's husband.  While I was not privy to their intimate
agreements, I can only say that the venerable Victor Book of the Opera
calls him so in Act III, although in Acts I, II & IV he appears to be
her lover.  Unless there is more than one man.  There is great Classical
relevance here, as Pollione is a proconsul.  Were there proconsuls of
Gaul?

DW

--
 . . . cum nonnullae res gererentur vel rectae vel inprobae, ac feretas
gentium desaeviret, regum
furor acueretur,   . . . etsi incultu effatu, nequivi tamen obtegere vel
certamena flagitiosorum vel
vitam recte viventium . .
..                                                Praefatio Gregorii
Turonensis


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