The biggest domestic tiff since the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, it's been said.

A happy time: strolling about in the sunshine assisting tradesmen with their domestic tiffs.

But as often happens to peaceful men in domestic tiffs, being ashamed he pushed another point.

'A domestic tiff which good Campanians prefer to forget!' Herculaneum's golden magistrate grinned at me, with an attractive flash of teeth.