As Sure As the Dawn
“Theophilus and the soldiers removed the trunk being sent to the emperor while the slaves, who had manned the oars from Ephesus to Corinth, unloaded rugs, aromatic spices, and amphorae of wine, and loaded them into wagons for the journey over the isthmus. Sburarii unloaded the sand ballast for the Corinth arena. It would be replaced on the other side of the hill with grain destined for Rome.Once stripped, the ship would be dragged from the water. It would take days to haul the corbita the few miles to the Savonic Gulf where it would be launched in order to continue the voyage to Italy. Nero had begun work on a canal through the faulted limestone of the isthmus, but the work had stopped upon his death, making the arduous overland trek still necessary.The slaves strained at the ropes of a ship nearby. Sweat glistened on their brown bodies as they labored to pull the ship up a ramp. Weeks of travel south and west into the Mediterranean would be saved by taking the ship overland. September... had come and gone and the sea was notoriously dangerous by November.MoreLess
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