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Talbot Mundy. Caesar Dies
Caesar Dies
Table of Contents
I. IN THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
II. A CONFERENCE AT DAPHNE
III. MATERNUS-LATRO
IV. THE GOVERNORS OF ROME AND ANTIOCH
V. ROME—THE THERMAE OF TITUS
VI. THE EMPEROR COMMODUS
VII. MARCIA
VIII. NARCISSUS
IX. STEWED EELS
X. "ROME IS TOO MUCH RULED BY WOMEN!"
XI. GALEN
XII.-LONG LIVE CAESAR!
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Talbot Mundy
Published by Good Press, 2019
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She refused to let Galen yield the couch on Pertinax's right hand but took the vacant one at the end of the half-moon table, saying she preferred it—which was likely true enough; it gave her a view of all the faces without turning her head or appearing to stare.
For a long time there was merely desultory conversation while the feast, restricted within moderate proportions by request of Pertinax, was brought on.
