Was playing a Choice of Game (cog) called "The War to the West",  written by Lucas Zaper (2020), which for a cog has rather complex systems, a lot of number crunching to provide a tactical and strategic layer to a cog game. The player is a early medieval ruler making decisions for his kingdom with the aid of a council and this was my attempt to represent that scene, with obvious influences.

Council

A Rosemary plant flowering in April 2020. Autumn, Southern Hemisphere.

Apparently Rosemary is known to flower outside its normal flowering season (wikipedia 2020).

Mary Beard, author of SPQR A History of Ancient Rome (2015) has made a number of documentaries, some of which can be watched on youtube. Currently there is "Ultimate Rome : Empire without limit" (2016) which starts of with interesting digressions on Romes early history & mythology.

02/02/2020
And here she is debating Greeks vs Romans with Boris Johnson, British PM (Pro Brexit), "I'm afraid in many ways the Romans were barstards". Part of her debate is a rather pointed (jugular) example of a letter to Cicero pertaining to election, Commentariolum Petitionis.