Aedile
In the dying days of the Republic, Horatius Largus was still shoveling excrement out of roads and paying drunk plebs to pull the same out of sewers. Empires rose and […]
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Adrianople
The Visigoths poured into the city like blood torn from an artery, a merciless tide overwhelming those who stared. Most Romans had the presence of mind to run but there […]
Actium
The gulls circled over the cape, the waters below red and brown, flotsam dragging men still groaning into shore, armor shining on the shining sea. The gulls landed on the […]
Accept
Max looked up from the latrine ditch, at the city wall. He had some little time to jump back up the shore before the body hit the water, and sent […]
Abatis
Cicero ran his hand over the sharpened barricade. “Those Vandal dogs will sooner see Hell than the inside of our city.” He smiled knowingly at Virgil. Virgil, for his part, […]
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