![]() ![]() The door and out into the settlement which had been thrown up upon the bones of last year's army camp, a smaller compound. Instead he sighed and got to his feet, plump and taut like his ankles because he spent the vastest part of his life sitting or eating. ![]() He did not post it in one of the pigeonholes to wait for that return from Britannia. So when Gaius Trebatius in Caesar's office of Roman communications took delivery of the little red leather cylinder bearing Pompey's seal, The orders were that while Caesar and the major part of his army were in Britannia, none but the most urgent communications were to be sent to him even directives from the Senate had to wait in Portus Itius on the Gallic mainland until Caesar returnedįrom his second expedition to the island at the western end of the world, a place almost as mysterious as Serica.īut this was a letter from Pompey the Great, who was the First Man in Rome-and Caesar's son-in-law. ![]()
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