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"Was that accomplished by doctors?" Octavian is very interested in medical reforms. (As emperor, he will establish a military medical corps, refining and regularizing the advances in medicine that had begun on the frontiers during his uncle's bloody wars of conquest.) "Or," he adds with a skeptical curl of the lip, "a work of priests?" He is thinking of Octavia's lapse into cultism. He brought his sister home to the house of the Julii by threat of force, that time. "I too am a priest," he tells Mel. "I am a pontiff."