Under Vesuvius(79)

“So ends the line of priests of Campanian Apollo,” Julia said sadly.

“They’ll find another one,” I assured her. “Bloodlines aren’t everything.”

“But such an ancient lineage!” she said. “It seems a shame.”

“This was just a little change in a little town,” Cicero said. “I fear that far greater things are about to change very soon.” And so they did.



THESE THINGS HAPPENED IN SOUTHERN Campania in the year 704 of the City of Rome, the consulship of Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus and Caius Claudius Marcellus.



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