Sextus Is the Real Villain of Familia Romana
The Modern Day Dangers You Probably Missed in Hanz Orberg's Latin Textbook: Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana
Who is the villain of the incredible story of Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana, Hanz Orbergs’ amazing book used as the primary text for the Latin program at Wyoming Catholic College, by many homeschoolers, and many classical high schools? A few obvious answers pop into the mind immediately. Marcus isn’t portrayed that well, and at best, he seems to be a brat, so he seems like the story's primary villain. Maybe also the slave Medus, who while he is redeemed somewhat at the end, still happens to be a thief. Maybe if you got to the end of the book, you might even think the barbarians mentioned near the end of the story are the biggest of the “baddies”.
But what if Orberg’s story, seemingly written at a beginner’s level, is actually far more complicated and far deeper than it seems? What if the real villain is someone completely unexpected? What if one (or more) of the seeming protagonists is actually at the heart of Rome’s corruption and the head of a massive Roman criminal syndicate? What if the teacher seemingly has it in for Marcus because the teacher himself is in on some corrupt deal and doesn’t want anything exposed?
I believe this is most definitely the case, and everything comes down and points toward the young, seemingly smart, friendly, and relatively well-behaved classmate of Marcus, Sextus, as the real archvillain of the entire story.
For one, don’t you find it odd that young Sextus never gets into any trouble? He’s a young Roman boy and he’s definitely no perfect saint. Marcus a Sexto pulsatus est, for crying out loud. He did undeniably hit Marcus as this picture from the text below proves. And he never got in trouble for that as far as I remember. But what’s important to notice is that while he’s always around when trouble happens, Sextus never gets in trouble personally.
What do you think is more likely, Sextus always getting lucky and getting off easy all the time out pure fortuna? Or that he’s pulling strings and manipulating people so that he gets off easy all the time? What if he never gets in trouble because he’s the ultimate pulling all the strings throughout all of the story? What if he’s the one paying off the barbarians? What if he framed Medus for the theft at the beginning of the story, or is even secretly working for Sparta, China, or some other ancient empire we don’t know anything about?
How else could it be? I have no further need of evidence or witnesses (obviously) because Orberg never told us not to think this way. So of course he intended us to think the way I’m thinking. And that means that we need a deeper investigation into these astounding allegations. Why does he get into fights at the school with Marcus? Why is he at the school in the first place? If he is pulling strings and manipulating everything, and of course he is, then obviously he is not in school as a student but merely, perhaps, because Marcus is also not who he seems to be and Sextus is an intelligence agent trying to take him down.
Keep a close eye on Sextus. We need Trump to order an immediate and far deeper investigation into this. Because the Communists, the Clintons, and or George Soros could be working for Sextus or him for them. Or maybe one of them is the new Sextus. Or maybe even that Sextus is, was, or became Annibale Bugnini?
Watch out. If Sextus is still around, he might just be the reason that Familia Romana is still being read and studied at classical schools and by homeschoolers all over the country. This would mean that Sextus or his allies have infiltrated all of them…
Which means….
Okay, you probably don’t want to even know what that means…
And we haven't even gotten into the definitely-not-a-conspiracy-but-totally-proven theory that Iulius himself in the story is involved in "dirty work", as he forced Medus to do the same (as Medus in the story admits to his girlfriend Lydia) which can only mean that he's also a criminal mastermind...
Maybe Iulius is in fact the Godfather from that series of movies? They’re both Italian, right?
Please ask Trump and his team to investigate the #sextusbodycount. That’s the only way we’ll be able to be safe from Sextus.