6/20/2023 0 Comments Pompeii by Alex Butterworth![]() Afterwards they would begin their evening work of sharpening stakes and poles for the vines, repairing their tools and building hives for the bees. ![]() On his own country estate, not far beyond the city walls, Valens’s slaves would be finishing their outdoor jobs for the day, scattering a last cartload of dung around the olive trees before going inside to charge the oil lamps. From the nearby street the sounds of the city could be heard as it went about its business: men returning home from the baths to prepare for dinner, shopkeepers sliding in the wooden slats to shut up their premises for the day, empty wagons trundling back out to the farms having delivered their produce. From there he watched the last of the weak sunlight retreat behind the roofline of the courtyard, and felt the room grow cold. ![]() ![]() CHAPTER 1 Death of a Roman Knight November AD 54ĭecimus Lucretius Valens stretched out his frail body on the couch that his servants had positioned in the summer dining room at his request. ![]()
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