"Mum, this boy is our teacher?"

Two Roman aristocratic maidens stood in front of Appis, carefully examining the boy who was about their age, and then curiously asked their mother why she had chosen such a young man as their teacher, who did not look like a scholar at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Boy?

Appis was very depressed to hear this title, nineteen years old was already the age of joining the army in ancient Rome, some people had even been fighting for two years, and now, these two stubborn aristocratic girls looked down on themselves so much.

"Well, learn from him, even though he's a little older, a little younger. But my mother has been personally examined, and his knowledge is still relatively profound, at least better than the previous Greek. ”

Claudia stood beside her two daughters with a slightly embarrassed expression. But no matter how embarrassing it is, it can only be like this, and in this cold winter, it is good to have Roman teachers willing to come here. Immature, maybe it's just appearance, at least intellectually, this Roman woman still has a certain distance from Apis, which is the main reason why Claudia later agreed to keep Apis.

Winter was so long, and after introducing Appis, Claudia lazily climbed up to the second floor, followed by two slaves with standard stature and well-proportioned faces......

"So, now that you're our teacher, tell me, what will you do? Math or music? Or literature and rhetoric? ”

After Claudia climbed to the second floor, the two Roman aristocratic girls curiously asked about the new teacher in front of them, but it was still the tone of the nobles to the commoners, and there always seemed to be a sense of superiority, which displeased Appis. But what's the solution? There was a gap between the plebeians and the nobility, and the early Roman commoners and nobles were not even allowed to intermarry, which shows that the hierarchy was so strong.

"As you wish, I've covered all of them, and I can start with the aspects that interest you the most."

Appis cleared his throat and tried to speak to the two little loli in a gentle tone. Well, they are indeed little Lori, it seems that they will not be more than sixteen or seventeen years old, a young man under the age of twenty stands and talks to two girls under the age of sixteen about education and literature. Appis suddenly felt comical in this scene. However, this seems to be a coincidence, in this world, people who can master so much modern knowledge before the age of twenty, except for themselves, the crossing dog, I am afraid that the whole of Rome will not be found. So I can barely be called a teacher, the youngest teacher in history......

"I wonder what happened to Helen after the Trojan War?"

The younger girl asked the first question. The girl's yearning for myths and stories always tends to the reverie of beautiful love, but the man is different, if it weren't for the aristocratic girl in front of him to ask, Apis would not have thought about this question, the man only paid attention to the fall of the city of Troy, and the Greek coalition army burned the entire city and slaughtered the city. Who cares what happened to that Helen...... But fortunately, Apis had thought about the myths of ancient Greece before coming here, and he could still answer this sudden question.

"Helen later returned to Sparta, where she was forgiven by her husband for her immense beauty, and after Menelaus' death, she was deported to Rhodes."

Appis said calmly.

"What a tragic ending. She deserves to have a happy life. ”

Claudia's eldest daughter then sighed. However, Apis doesn't think so, although Helen has a peerless beauty, but this can't be a reason for her willful indulgence, it was good to marry the king of Sparta, and he should be content, but he also had a watery poplar and eloped with Paris the prince of Troy, and it was because of her that Greece and Troy started a war, and a dozen was ten years, because of a woman, let the two countries meet each other, this is changed to ****, it is a red face and trouble, however, what is even more strange is that when Helen was sent back to Sparta, I even got his husband's forgiveness, I wiped it, and when he thought of this, Apis wanted to complain even more - how beautiful are you, let your husband cuckold you and forgive you when he comes back?

What's even more strange is that the two aristocratic girls in front of them still feel sorry for Helen, who has brought disaster to the country and the people.

But at the moment, they are aristocratic girls, they are just commoners, commoners who have just gained freedom, and they have no right to contradict them, even if they are their teachers, they can only teach knowledge, and the principles of being human are still taught by their fathers when they were young.

Perhaps this was the concept of the Romans, and Appis could only sigh alone.

"So, two little masters, do you want to know anything else? Like math or rhetoric? ”

Appis stood respectfully in front of the two children younger than himself, asking for their opinions. Just came to a strange environment, socializing with strange people, more often, indulgence and low-key can make people get along more harmoniously, Appis followed this guideline, and continued to talk to the two little masters gently.

"Speaking of rhetoric, it just so happened that I recently wanted to write a letter to my uncle in Rome, and I don't know how to put it down."

Claudia's eldest daughter, Antia, rushed to ask.

Appis found that Claudia's two daughters were still lively and active, after all, the age of mischievous curiosity, the dull atmosphere in the mansion did not make the two little girls depressed, but their playfulness added to the vitality of the place, Apis guessed that if it were not for winter, the two naughty girls would not have stayed at home like this, but when summer came, they returned to Aretion.

Claudia stayed here in the winter only because winter was the most intensive period for the legion to trade slaves and booty, and in the summer the legion had to fight, and the spoils of war and slaves were imprisoned at will, and there was no time to trade and cash out. Moreover, when the legion was fighting outside, it was impossible for the merchants to follow to the front line, and it was not so exaggerated to sacrifice their lives for money.

"Well, rhetoric, simply put, is the words that add ornamentation to the otherwise blunt words, which can be words that express emotions, such as excitement, melancholy, sadness, or anger. It can also be an analogy, like you can compare a distant river to a ribbon, or a mountain to a giant, or a barbarian to a beast? Wait a minute. ”

"I know all of this, is there anything else that makes people feel bright? For example, how can I express my longing for the city of Rome to my uncle in a letter? ”

Antia was very direct, as if her mother had brought them not a teacher, but a servant who accompanied them to gossip and ask questions...... But Appis had to endure, this time he came to this noble family, he had a mission, and he couldn't offend anyone at the beginning.

"It's very simple, you might say - Rome, like the stars in the night sky, is a brilliant jewel in the black canopy, radiating infinite light and charm, but it is so far away and unreachable to me. Because it's so beautiful, I don't even dare to expect to be able to see it up close and personal. ”

After Appis finished speaking, Antia's expression immediately became different, and her eyes revealed joy and surprise. Because this description of Apis seemed to the two girls to be simply wonderful, they were rarely exposed to such rhetoric, and the Greek teachers who had taught them more about simple arithmetic and logic, and some appreciation of Roman law and music, rarely mentioned this kind of rhetorical literature, or only the simplest teaching.

You can imagine how boring the math, logic, and Roman laws were for the two adolescent girls. What a joy and a spark they were when they came into contact with the rhetoric of Appis's mouth.