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Outside the tent a bulbous ht sky, majestically and coldly imperious towards the squalid world beneath

Inside braziers flanked the General Servants continued to bring in all ht supper" He would definitely need Roscius by his side should his next ht to hireat centurion, give me a lucky one It see another salted olive in hisit doith diluted wine "Firstly, how is Teucer?"

"He&039;ll live I aent alive We learned nothing"

"There&039;s no need to apologise We also learned ht think too The iven ht as to the identity of his employer We also confirmed the existence of a conspiracy - and doused the flames of the treachery It will be some time before news of his death will reach histhat time Similarly it will take a while for so that respite I will look to defeat our enemies across the channel - be they Gauls, Britons or Ro to Gaul?"

"Not all of us, all at once But you will be returning with me You&039;ve proved yourself to be of far too much use You&039;ve becoh I have promoted you to centurion Lucius, you&039;re still le, I want you with a sword in your hand - bloodied with the enemies of Rome and Caesar There is a storm on the horizon Gaul has only been half-taarden there to pull up The business of Britain and Rolint in his coain, clouded over with a furrowed brow and expression of icy deter, after the centurion had been dismissed, Joseph looked in on his , but barely Caesar was finishing off some correspondence, a letter to Brutus Caesar&039;s relationship with hisand intense He looked upon Brutus as being like a son He had encouraged hi As he wrote to Brutus though Caesar could not help but sneer as he thought about the other father-figure in his life, his uncle - Cato

"Would you like anything before I go to bed?"

"No thank you Joseph Get soet some for me too," Caesar replied, wearily

As he stood by his master the old servant couldn&039;t fail to notice how the map of Britain on the table had been replaced by one of Gaul He squinted in the half-light, atte to read the name of the town Caesar had recently circled

Alesia

End Note

Since the release of Augustus: Son of Ro about when the folloill be published The reply has been "not yet" I fear that the reply may remain "not yet" for some time, due to other commitments I hope that the Sword of Roh in the form of a prequel, as opposed to sequel For those of you who have read Standard Bearer without having first read Augustus: Son of Rome you may be interested to know that the characters of Oppius, Roscius, Tiro Casca and Julius Caesar all feature heavily throughout Augustus: Son of Rome too

Thanks as always to Matthew Lynn and everyone at Endeavour Press

Should you be interested in so then I can recoraphy of Julius Caesar and also In The Name Of Rome The works of Cicero, Suetonius and Plutarch are classics for good reasons too If interested in reading ulden, Steven Saylor, Simon Scarrow and Robert Harris

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This book is dedicated to John McGrath - courageous, smart, stoical and fun