Аннотация
Lindsey Davis
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ROME: TWO WEEKS IN OCTOBER, AD 72
`It's the City that creates luxury. And out of luxury, inevitably, comes greed, out o f greed bursts forth violence, out o f violence proliferate all the various kinds o f crime and iniquity.'
CiceroPRINCIPAL CHARACTERS High Society
Vespasian an Emperor (no one comes higher)
Titus Caesar next in line (top substitute)
Caenis the Emperor's mistress (discreetly important)
T. Claudius Laeta top clerk (even more discreet)
Anacrites chief spy (indiscreet even to list him)
A Very Important (unnamed on legal advice) Patrician
D. Camillus Verus a senator and friend of the Emperor
Julia Justa his noble and put-upon wife
Helena Justina
Camillus Aelianus their noble and dutiful children
Camillus Justinus
Some Honest Citizens
Balbinus Pius a big rissole leaving town
Flaccida his wife, a hard woman in difficult circumsta...
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