Texans don't put BBQ sauce on dogs...
That would be [politically incorrect ethnic reference suppressed here]!
...Is Publius a person? I sort of assumed Publius was the pseudonym of a group of students who would log on occasionally from a philosophy seminar. Has read too widely and retained too much for one person.
Maybe. Anybody can sound a lot more knowledgable than they really are when they have the Internet handy. Heck, look at how smart I can look sometimes. ;)