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If you\u2019ve called Felix, I\u2019ll render any help I can, just to be in on this.\u201d \u201cIf you want to catch the boni with their pants down, shame them publicly, I think your position as a tribune is uniquely suited to aid us,\u201d I said. Hippolyta put a hand on Aurelia\u2019s shoulder. \u201cYou said trust Felix. And if the tribune can get N\u2019gala back, isn\u2019t it worth his favour?\u201d Aurelia nodded slowly. I provided Clodius with a succinct precis. \u201cI was brought in on another matter but, since then, things have escalated.<\/p>\n

Hippolyta\u2019s daughter had been taken, presumably to put pressure on Aurelia. What the kidnappers didn\u2019t know, is that Aurelia had manumitted both Hippolyta and her daughter, and now they find themselves holding a freed citizen, technically a plebeian in danger. As for the men responsible, we know for fact it\u2019s Titus Betucius Barrus.<\/p>\n

Just this morning, we saw The Elephant with the child, dragging her away when we tried to rescue her from where she was kept. And Betucius is a henchmen of Titus Annius \u2014\u201d \u201c\u2014 Milo,\u201d Clodius said with me. His eyes lit up and he grinned mischievously. \u201cYes, we\u2019ve run into each other before. It will be an absolute pleasure to assist you. Do you know where they\u2019ve taken her?\u201d \u201cMilo\u2019s house. I used an incantation to locate her earlier today, but we couldn\u2019t rescue her. Betucius escaped with the girl, and we followed them to Milo\u2019s doorstep.<\/p>\n

We left a watchman to ensure they don\u2019t move her. It\u2019s an impasse at the moment. He knows we\u2019ve seen her alive and taken to his house, but we cannot press him publicly without evidence lest he rush to kill the girl and dispose of her body. We must act quickly, and our problem is his guards. This morning it was Betucius and a few of his muscled goons.<\/p>\n

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Copyright (c) Assaph Mehr 2024 If you downloaded this book without purchase from a pirating site, please read it with the author\u2019s compliments. If you enjoy it, please consider purchasing a legal copy to support the author in writing further books. Please also leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads – it helps! All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanic, by photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.<\/p>\n

Explicitly, no part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems. Purple Toga does not accept any story or artwork generated using AI systems. This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental \u2014 with the notable exception of a few long-dead Greek and Roman artists and philosophers.<\/p>\n

Book cover design and layout by, Ellie Bockert Augsburger of Creative Digital Studios. www.CreativeDigitalStudios.com Cover design features: Blue Cloaked Figure in Empty Desert By rolffimages \/ Adobe Stock Roman Colosseum Lights at Sunset By davidsonlentz \/ Adobe Stock Published by Purple Toga Publications, Tasmania, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9944493-7-5 2nd printing OceanofPDF.com To all the women in my life: Much love and admiration for all you had to go through. OceanofPDF.com INTRODUCTION By Harry Turtledove, Historian and SF&F\u2019s Grandmaster of Alternate History What I most enjoy about In Victrix is that Assaph Mehr\u2019s Egretia is Rome as the Romans themselves imagined it to be.<\/p>\n

Magic really works. Curses curse, love philtres create love, oracles do predict the future, and on and on. The genuine Romans enacted laws against magic not because they thought it was a fraud but because they thought it wasn\u2019t, and feared what it would do if widely practiced. Even early Christians didn\u2019t oppose magic because it was ineffective, but because it was, in their view, impious.<\/p>\n

You will also learn a lot about how many obscure, little-known aspects of Roman society. You\u2019ll pick up some handy Latin profanities and obscenities, for sure. If, just to give one example, you\u2019re confused about the distinction between irrumatio and fellatio, you won\u2019t be once you get through the book. You\u2019ll also soak up quite a bit about the Romans\u2019 language in general. Mark Twain famously said he would sooner decline two beers than one German adjective, and the sentiment applies all the more to Latin, which has more cases, each with its own particular endings.<\/p>\n

Assaph navigates all this with grace and ease.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.<\/em><\/p>\n

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