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She nodded “Let’s get cracking”

They started as they had before, picking from the riddle what seemed like places and names For “dubr” they narrowed the references to two likely candidates: Ad Dubr, a village in North Ye water

“So so either east of Ad Dubr or east of some body of water What’s east of Ad Dubr?”

Sahty miles of mountains and desert, then the Red Sea Doesn’t seem likely Up until now all of the locations have been in Europe”

“I agree Let’sof Iovis’ When did he die?”

Sado the words wrong—‘Iovis Dies’ The original Latin for Thursday”

“King of Thursday?”

“Jupiter,” Saods, like Zeus is to the Greeks”

Reht on: “Also known as the Jovian planet So froot Jovis, then Jovian”

“You got it”

“So try a search with ‘Jupiter,’ ‘dubr,’ ‘three,’ and ‘seven’ ”

“Nothing” He added and subtracted the search terain came up empty “What’s the fifth line?”

“ ‘Temple at the Conqueror’s Crossroads’ ”

Sam tried “Jupiter” co, then tried “Jupiter” and “teo,” he muttered “There are lots of temples dedicated to Jupiter: Lebanon, Pompeiiand Rome This is it In Rome the Capitoline Hill is dedicated to the Capitoline Triad—Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva And here’s the kicker: it’s located on one of the Seven Hills of Rome”

“Let uess: the third one ‘The third of seven shall rise’ ”