Augustus Road

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"A marriage that lasts until old age without divorce is rare and extremely precious.±," - Ancient Roman epitaph

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After a while, Spinzel's pores and pupils shrank, and his body functions forced him to vomit out the poisoned wine, but he used his strong will, not to survive, but to die. It was extremely painful. He grabbed the hanging branches and leaves of the potted plant with his hands until it was crushed into pieces. Soon his body was bent and he died sideways by the drainage channel in the atrium. This drainage channel cost 30,000 yuan to build. Delamark is all paved with marble, and there are colorful stones inside to filter out the dirt. Now what flows in it is mixed with deadly venom.

As soon as Spinzel's front leg was dead and the back leg was executed, the team of liberated slaves entered the courtyard worth 400,000 silver coins with weapons, but now all the people they touched were dead people, and they all died of poisoning, so This group of people just covered their faces with cloaks. After identifying Spinzel's body lying by the ditch, they pulled out their knives and cut off his head. "This bastard is the first to be executed. It was him whom Caesar hated the most. Caesar gave him a gift of 40 million sesterces, paid off his debts, and built such a mansion, but he actually repaid his kindness with hatred." The leader carried his head and went to receive the reward first. The rest took their swords and killed all the people lying inside who were still breathing, regardless of their identity or age. "Young Caesar wants to destroy this whole family, and kill all of the Spinzel family." If you want to collect the reward for your head, you can also get five hundred dinars. Don’t identify it so carefully. Time waits for us and we will suffer if other refugees and slaves come in to take advantage.”

In the end, there were too many severed heads and they couldn't take them all away, so the execution team could only slightly identify their identities, and then the ones they didn't need (the ones they decided wouldn't be needed) might just be servants. The slaves' heads were thrown into the drainage channel. In the spirit of "I was wrong. I can't let others take advantage of me", these abandoned heads were thrown into the ditch. They all had their faces stabbed with knives, burned with flames until they were unrecognizable, and then thrown into the water.

Then, the "Julius" execution team used various techniques to tie the valuable heads together, and then strung them with iron hooks before walking out of the beautiful house. As a result, as soon as he arrived outside the door, he found that the deceased's neighbor, Tribune Cervilis, who was also on the list of public enemies, had an equally beautiful house surrounded by another firing squad.

Severis was also Caesar's closest confidant. It is said that Caesar originally wanted to marry his daughter Julia to him, but later changed his mind because he wanted to form an alliance with Pompey. However, as compensation, Pompey gave himself The daughter married Severis. Later, when Caesar and Pompey turned against each other, Severis remained cautiously neutral in the whirlpool of the struggle. Caesar did not embarrass him much. Instead, he approved in a memorandum that he would serve as the governor of Cyprus the following year. But now everything has changed. No longer exists. Young Caesar believed that "Seville's attitude was very ambiguous before and after the assassination, which had damaged the dictator's trust during his lifetime. In addition, his wife is the daughter of Pompey and will become a future trouble when we go out to conquer." , or the possibility of becoming one.”

Since this possibility exists, it is unforgivable. In addition, Young Caesar is obviously most interested in the Seville family's tens of millions of sesterces.

The firing squad heard the wailing and struggling sounds of women in the yard. It was obvious that the wives and daughters of Seville were revolting against slave rape. This is now commonplace. The masters who liked to abuse slaves in the past died like this. The fastest, but even with such a huge sacrifice, Seville could not escape - a slave with a nameplate volunteered to move the ladder for the firing squad, and was rewarded with fifty small silver coins, and then The firing squad climbed onto the high roof at the corner of the house.

The execution team first searched the attic and the chimney, but found nothing. As a result, they all stood on the edge of the roof, yelling at the young slave who was moving the ladder, and clasped his hands. The cunning opponent stretched out his hand again. After catching another thrown money bag, he pointed to the center of the roof. The tiles there seemed to have been newly laid and were slightly raised compared to other places.

Everything was understood now. The firing squad uncovered the newly covered tiles piece by piece. "We have found you," accompanied by these horrifying words, then removed Sevi, who still had dry food and a water bag hanging around his neck. Lys was pulled out. The master was very depressed, desperate, and very angry. He angrily scolded the young slave for being ungrateful because he had given the slave ten thousand sesterces in advance, and begged the slave to keep it a secret, and He tied the mules and horses at the door to give the impression that he had escaped, but he was betrayed unexpectedly.

But Severis's anger did not last long. The firing squad quickly killed him, cut off his head, and then went to collect the reward.

Similarly, Casca, who was terrified by the public enemy declaration, hurriedly closed his house. He summoned all the slaves to the courtyard and directly ordered the trusted sword-fighting slaves to kill all the men and women to avoid any trouble. After the massacre, he made up his mind to fight to the end, even if it provoked the attack of the legion, he was willing.

Earlier, little Casca also returned from the Apollonia Academy. His father had always hoped that he could become a tribune directly like Leo and Caesar the Younger, or the former two had "opened a gap", so Casca had been taking his son to spend money lobbying for this official position for a while, but who would have thought that the father and son would be trapped here together today.

"If I had known this, I would not have asked you to return to Italy. It would be better to go to Athens." Casca sighed to little Casca.

"Father, please don't say that. Even if you are declared a public enemy, it doesn't mean there is no hope. Didn't Lepidus and Antony go there? Our family is the oldest and most glorious in the Republic, and I used to be classmates with Caesar and Leo. Even if we are not so harmonious, I still decided to go out and hope that they can pardon my father. As long as this is the case, I still have a 50% chance of success - if it fails, I will live and die with my father." The son, Casca, spoke generously, which moved his father very much.

So Casca sent out thirty sword-fighting slaves to protect his son from being killed by the execution squad on the way and to arrive at the Grand Square safely - now Antony himself has also brought a legion into the city, and the four of them work there all day, accept petitions, and of course the most important thing is to supervise the implementation of the "mass execution". (A great event, a cool phone is waiting for you! Follow us~ Click on the official account (Add friends on WeChat-Add official account-enter dd), and participate immediately! Everyone will win a prize, follow dd's WeChat official account now!) (To be continued..)