I found this gem on Wikipedia yesterday:
Lucius Licinius Crassus was mocked by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. 54 BC) for weeping over the death of his pet lamprey [as told in Plutarch’s Morals, vol. 5 at the end of section 14 of “POLITICAL PRECEPTS”]
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey#In_literature)
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^ @Daniel: weird historical mourning anecdote.
^ @Peter, apparently I’m still finding amusement in the classics.
Amazing. [Fb]