Uhuru should fight graft on his own terms

Sixty-three years before Jesus was born, Julius Caesar was elected the Pontifex Maximus or high priest of Rome. A year later in 62 BC, Caesar’s wife Pompeia, in her capacity as wife to the high priest, hosted the festival of the Bona Dea or good goddess in her home. This was a special festival celebrating chastity and fertility. The festival was a women-only event.

However, a mischievous young nobleman and politician named Publius Clodius Pulcher disguised himself as a woman and went to the fertility festival at Caesar’s house. His intention was to seduce Casear’s wife. Clodius was poor at pretending to be a woman and he was exposed. He was arrested and put on trial.