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            <request>
                <requestName>GetPassage</requestName>
                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:S.sejanus_l_1</requestUrn>
            </request>
            <reply>
                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:S.sejanus_l_1</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="S"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="sejanus-l-bio-1" n="sejanus_l_1"><head><label><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Seja'nus</surname>,
        <forename full="yes">L.</forename></persName></label></head><p>was praetor <date when-custom="32">A. D. 32</date>. Though a friend of Aelius Sejanus, and
      probably a kinsman, he was spared by Tiberius. This Sejanus, at the celebration of the
      Floralia, employed only baldheaded persons to perform the ceremonies, which were prolonged to
      the evening, and the spectators were lighted out of the theatre by five thousand children,
      with torches in their hands and their heads shaved. This was done to ridicule Tiberius, who
      was bald at the top of his head. The emperor affected to know nothing of this insult. It
      became a fashion, in consequence of this affair, to call bald persons Sejani. (Dio Cassius,
      58.19.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.G.L">G.L</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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            </reply>
            </GetPassage>