Augustus Road

At this time, in the city of Rome, countless residents were running along the streets of Ostia and into the furrows under the city wall. Because today was the birthday of Romulus, the founder of the city, the residents brought various things, including wheat, Statues of gods, woolen fabrics, etc. were all dumped into the furrows. At this time, the surrounding pillars and arcades were covered with "Akuta" depicting the battle situation on the Gallic front. This was also the biggest reason why the citizens came crazily to worship at the furrows - - They are extremely enthusiastic about Caesar's war, thinking that the governor is leading the legion to keep all kinds of terrible enemies of Rome in the world from the furrow sanctuary, but now the specially selected fathers of the Senate are ambiguous But his attitude made the people angry. .

These people crowded in front of various huge temples, forcing the priests to ask God's will for the war situation in the Gallic province. Under the "Akuta" waving in the sky, the representatives of the people began to ask: "Why, why! Our legions obviously just ask those greedy barbarians to withdraw from the land of Gaul, because it was occupied by barbarians. Julius Caesar is upholding the justice and virtue of the Republic, but the scumbags of the Temple of Concord are Constant constraints are the result of the tragedies of countless heroes. Then we ask to hear God’s opinions on this war, whether it is a divination, a bird, a zodiac, or a Sibyl prophecy, we will wait and see!”

A group of Chaldean astrologers did not know good and bad, and conducted divination seriously in front of the people. Later, they came to the result that "the battle with the Germans was unfavorable." As a result, they were dragged out and beaten by the people, and two or three astrologers were carried away. He went up to their observation tower and was thrown violently. One guy was thrown to death, and the legs of the other two were broken. Then the slaves and the workshop slaves sang and danced around the astrologer's corpse, and even made up poems. Satirizing the deceased who had a crooked head and back, "After he looked at his bronze calendar board this morning, he happily said to himself that today is a good day for me, and it is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and then he took the key and went out!"

Next, the people held the akuta and marched along the streets around the main square. Claudius immediately released thousands of street gangsters in the Temple of Virtue to join the people. Rushing to the front, "guiding and inciting" the people to destroy all the buildings in sight - soon, the people crowded the Temple of War. The priests here were shrewd people, and they hurriedly released a group of pigeons from the cage. Then he pretended to follow the direction of the pigeon's flight and observed it, and said: "The decree of Mars, the ancestor of the Romans, the Roman Republic will achieve brilliant military victories in the east and north this year, and no one or anything can stop it. Such good luck."

"Renus River! Renus River! Egypt! Egypt!" All the people began to applaud, jump forward, shouting these two place names, because this is really the explanation of the results of the priests of the Temple of War, the northern part of the Republic Gaul, the Germanic region, and the Egyptian kingdom in the east.

At this time, a gangster who sneaked in under Claudius's instructions took the opportunity to shout, "Mars' divine will cannot be violated. We need appropriate blood sacrifices to increase the divine power of the soldiers on the front line!"

"Blood sacrifice, blood sacrifice!" The people below became frantic and brutal. They rushed everywhere, swept half of the Roman city blocks, and arrested two German naturalized residents, plus a businessman from Alexandria, Egypt. They beat the three of them with wooden sticks and bricks until blood flowed all over the floor. They then dragged the three people's feet to the center of the square, then uncovered the floor above and dug a deep pit. Buried three unlucky guys alive.

In the crowd, a young girl wearing a Roman-style robe, escorted by several maids and strong men, watched all this with smart eyes, and said happily to the people around her: "It seems that we have sneaked into the city of Rome. That’s right, the Republic will soon launch a war against my rebellious sister in this crazy atmosphere.”

After speaking, she took off the Akuta on a wall. Cleopatra had no difficulty reading the Latin on it, but her expression slowly changed, "Lepidus, Commander of the Twelve Legions" Us, while accompanying His Excellency Caesar in the peace talks, was attacked by the despicable Seweve cavalry and hit by a javelin. Now his life and death are uncertain. We can't bear it. We hope that the Senate and the Centurion Citizens' Assembly will launch a just war as soon as possible to punish the tyrants. of Ariovistus..."

"Life or death is uncertain... Life or death is uncertain." Cleopatra thought for a moment, and then immediately ordered her entourage to lift her carriage, "Run away, go to Apilon, and face the enemy." , the villa of my friend Lepidah.”

The carriage was speeding like lightning, and within a day, Cleopatra came down in front of the bronze gate of the villa. When her bare feet clanked through the short pine trees and the cistern in the front yard, Seeing the wailing and chaos in the front hall, the slaves were kneeling around Porti, her face was pale and her eyes were closed, the veteran wife and Portia were holding the Akuta proclamation recording her man's doom in their hands, Tears streamed down her cheeks. Today was originally a day for veterans’ wives to gather. Who would have thought that Portia actually saw this unfortunate news on the way here, and came to tell Body anxiously.

"You guys, don't panic. I will go to Naples right away, find the best doctors from my father's palace, and send them to Gaul to treat my friend." Even Cleopatra didn't know what to say at this moment. What's good? I could only say this in a hurry, but who would have thought that it would have the opposite effect. Potty cried out in time, and then she covered her face and cried again. This time, Little Queen also started to cry helplessly. The great cause of the country is also going to change.

Little Leo and Corinna, as instructed by Boti, were taken by Pope's wife to play in the back garden. Boti did not want the bad news to scare the children, so she soon became confused and muttered to herself: "My man will not die, he is a man blessed by God, he is not a mortal at all, not at all..."

As a result, the Villa of Apilon was full of crying. Portia suddenly took Boti's hand and shouted, "Okay, let's hire some armed slaves, I will go to Gaul with you, don't be afraid, maybe your identity will be restricted, but as a woman of the Cato family, I can lead this team."

"Yes, yes." Boti stood up suddenly and shouted these.

But how should these women start at this time? Cleopatra's thinking was still in confusion, Boti's scope never exceeded the family, and Portia also clearly lacked social experience, and soon they were at a loss again. (End of Volume 4) (To be continued.)