I think Methos is supposed to be the slave boy. There's that line on the barge at one point, about how he hasn't got between a married couple in two thousand years. I don't remember the year he gives in the deleted scene, but I'm pretty sure it fits.

Ah, see, that makes sense. :) Except, I wonder if Methos would think of himself as a slave boy, rather than just a slave, but I suppose it could be an identity thing. And, if he could buy a place in Herculaneum, I doubt he could have been a slave around the same time, also.

Hm, tricky tricky Methos. heh.

I like the ambigousness of the triangle. Just who is who? Maybe Methos was the wife...