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Explanation: A bit inaccurate in the details - Roman city traffic was godawful. Julius Caesar laid down restrictions on when carts could enter the city of Rome to cut down on the grotesque amount of traffic, and there was a dizzying array of traffic laws and one-way streets in the convoluted metropolis that was Rome. Or, in the words of the Roman poet Juvenal...
The ancient equivalent of driving behind a truck with a large and improperly secured load. That depiction is insane to think about.
is such a raw fucking line too.
And it still kinda hits home, after a couple thousands of years, and a couple centuries with ongoing progress. I really hope the day comes when this reads like the descriptions of naked slaves on auction.
Hmm, I wonder if there were actual safety regulations, in some form. There definitely wasn't 400-1850 or so.
There were, in fact! If I get the ambition I'll try to dig up a paper I read on it a while back.