"He is proprietor of the property now.

His father died last year." "Well," Tanno went on.

"You know that look Commodus has, like a healthy, well-fed country proprietor with no education, no ideas and no thoughts beyond crops and deer-hunting and boar-hunting, with a vacuous, unintelligent stare?
Well, that was just the way he looked." "That is the way young Ducconius looks," I rejoined.

"He ought to.

You have described exactly what he is." "Does he know he looks like the Emperor ?" Tanno asked, "and how does it happen ?" "Pure coincidence," said I."The family have been reared in these hills for generations, none of them ever went to Rome.