Search the Seven Hills
“people declare. Nay, rather, they are men....
Seneca DESPITE THE CENTURION’S rather optimistic assertion, the doings of the night dragged themselves out until almost dawn. The prisoners were sorted and questioned, one and all denying any knowledge of Tertullia Varia’s disappearance. Tiridates was indignant at the question; it was of vital interest for the Syrian community and his own business and political hopes that the girl be found, and that he take her to wife, which he was still willin...g to do in spite of her having been among the Christians. “Not wishing to be vulgar,” he said rather stuffily for a man whose only articles of dress were his shoes and his sister’s scarf, “but I should think her father will be glad to marry her off now to a man of my fortune.”
“Whatever fortune’s left to you after the emperor gets done reading your sentence,” grunted Arrius. “And I’m not sure what old Varus will take against more—his daughter being used as a pawn by the Christians or by the worshipers of the Syrian goddess.MoreLess
Seneca DESPITE THE CENTURION’S rather optimistic assertion, the doings of the night dragged themselves out until almost dawn. The prisoners were sorted and questioned, one and all denying any knowledge of Tertullia Varia’s disappearance. Tiridates was indignant at the question; it was of vital interest for the Syrian community and his own business and political hopes that the girl be found, and that he take her to wife, which he was still willin...g to do in spite of her having been among the Christians. “Not wishing to be vulgar,” he said rather stuffily for a man whose only articles of dress were his shoes and his sister’s scarf, “but I should think her father will be glad to marry her off now to a man of my fortune.”
“Whatever fortune’s left to you after the emperor gets done reading your sentence,” grunted Arrius. “And I’m not sure what old Varus will take against more—his daughter being used as a pawn by the Christians or by the worshipers of the Syrian goddess.MoreLess
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