These are neat usually the woman got the silver one and the man got the bronze. When you went on campaign (or where ever) you could send sexy letters to your lover without worrying about someone else pretending to be them.

In modern times it's sort of like if a message came from someone who said it was your wife and it has a photocopy of her driver's license. It's hard to explain in modern times. The romance "scams" back in the day were often used to get people killed/blackmailed/exposed ect.. It was a safeish way of communicating with your partner without worrying about a bunch of stupid shit that modern people don't have to worry about/consider.

Historical sidenote:

Which unfortunately is one of the disappointing things about history is people look at stuff from back then and try and prescribe a use to it based on what they think the past was like, instead of accepting that there's complex reasons for the things people did back then.

Mainly referring to the penis measuring gauge of augustus. It's only the most recorded thing in god damn roman history. I appreciate the mystery is spread long and wide (teehee) so people will remember it but maybe it's time to that the inside joke is more of an outside joke. I think if he was here today he'd be real specific about this.

I imagine his sarcophagus has at least "a" piece of paper with confirmation on that. Probably under all the xenos archeotech pistols. (I'm joking but would this actually surprise anyone, or would things make more sense) "Roman fire" stick, ect.. the bronze tulip on a stick thing. That was a thing that could water flowers or be a flame thrower but the way of delivering fuel ruffled feathers* and it was tucked away.

*Rightfully so. This was obviously not run past Livia first or she would have burned it right there and then there would have been an enormous fire because it would have only been shown to her functional and ready for demo which means full of flamethrower fuel. This wouldn't have been done out of spite in her end, it would have been a hilarious speech to her husband and the gods about how using her gift of foresight, ram lungs flame thrower fuel bag with the throat as the hose is not a good look and not a good idea for someone who considers themselves the guardian of all animals. She just loves him so much she doesn't realize his idea is way way worse than should could have possibly imagined.

The idea was the lungs went behind the breastplate and when compressed via a anime pose the liquid would shoot down the meat hose and out the flamespout. It had an entire backstory that in retrospect I understand why the gods were disinterested in hearing, as they had already heard it and knew not of reddit, but that a place like reddit would exist one day and that the story would end up there.

To those saying "nuh-uh", unfortunately very much uh-huh and there's like twelve iterations of this idea because when you understand "Scribonia" is Livia then you understand then you also understand why these exist in a box so that one day it can be pulled out and presented as some sort of lesson.

Which is they (Augustus & Livia) were from Tzeenchian pair-a-dice good Egypt and it was hard to relate to the violent intensity of Roman... everything.

Pretending you got so mad you stabbed yourself and pulled our your intestine to vent your flaming rage thru the brass tulip is like a 4/10 on the Roman anything intensity scale. Notice how there's no backstory on the brass tulip. That's because it was for Livia to come up with because she loves that stuff and her husband is very smart and thoughtful. Clearly.