At this time, in the city of Rome, countless residents were running along the streets of Ostia towards the furrow under the city wall, because today was the birthday of Romulus, the founder of the city, and the inhabitants poured all kinds of things, wheat, idols, woolen fabrics, etc., into the furrow, and at this time, the surrounding pillars and arcades were plastered with the "Akuta" of the battle situation on the Gallic front, which was the biggest reason why the citizens frantically came to the furrow to worship - they were extremely fanatical about Caesar's war, and thought that the governor was leading the legions, Keeping out the moult of Rome's horrific enemies in the Black Forest, the senate's ambiguous attitude of the Chosen Fathers now angers the populace.

These people crowded in front of the huge temples, threatening the priests to ask the gods for the war situation in Gaul Province, and the representatives of the people began to ask: "For what, for what!" Our legions are obviously only asking the insatiable barbarians to withdraw from the land of Gaul, because it was already occupied by the barbarians, Julius. Caesar upholds the justice and virtues of the Republic, while the filthy villains of the Temple of Concord are constantly holding back, and the tragedies of countless heroes are created in this way. Then we will ask to hear God's view of this war, the bowels, the birds, the chickens, the astrologers, or the prophetic books of Sybil, and we will see! ”

A group of Chaldean astrologers did not know what to do, and carefully performed divination in front of the people, and then came to the result of "a bad battle with the Germans", but they were dragged out and beaten by the people, and then two or three astrologers were carried up to their observation towers and thrown down, one of them was thrown to death, and the other two had their legs broken. Then the prostitutes and workshop slaves sang and danced around the astrologer's corpse. He also made up poems to satirize the deceased with his head open and his back folded. "After looking at his bronze calendar board this morning, he happily said to himself, today I have a good year, it is an auspicious day of the zodiac, and then I took the key out of the house!"

Then the people marched along the streets around the main square, holding the Akuta again, and Claudius immediately released thousands of street hooligans in the temple of the goddess of virtue to join the ranks of the people. Rushing to the front, "leading and agitating" the people to destroy all the buildings they could see—and soon the people were congesting the temple of the god of war, and the priests here were shrewd ghosts, who hurriedly released a flock of pigeons from their cages, and then pretended to follow the direction in which the pigeons were flying, and said: "The decree of Mars, the ancestor of the Romans, that the Roman Republic will achieve brilliant military victories in the east and north this year, and no one and nothing can stop this good fortune."

"Renus River! Renus River! Egypt! Egypt! All the people began to applaud and jump forward. Shouting these two place names, because this is really an explanation of the results of the priests of the Temple of War. Gaul and Germanic regions in the north of the Republic, and the Kingdom of Egypt in the east.

At this time, one of the hooligans who had infiltrated under Claudius' instructions took the opportunity to shout, "Mars's divine will cannot be violated, we need a proper blood sacrifice to increase the divine power of the soldiers on the front line!" ”

"Blood sacrifice, blood sacrifice!" The people below became frantic and brutal, and they rushed everywhere, swept half the blocks of Rome, captured two naturalized Germanic residents, plus a merchant from Alexandro, Egypt, beat them with sticks and bricks to the ground, dragged them to the center of the main square, and then uncovered the floor on them, dug a deep pit of earth, and buried the three unlucky fellows alive.

In the crowd, a fair-skinned girl dressed in Roman robes, guarded by several maids and strong men, watched all this with bright eyes, and said happily to those around her: "It seems that we have slipped into the city of Rome rightly, and soon the Republic will wage war against my disobedient sister in this crazy atmosphere." ”

After speaking, she removed the Akuta on a wall, and it was not difficult for Cleopatra to read the Latin on it, but her face slowly changed, "The commander of the Twelfth Legion, Liberdaus, was attacked by the despicable Severan cavalry when accompanying His Excellency Caesar in the peace talks, and was hit by a javelin, and now his life and death are uncertain, we can't bear it, I hope that the Senate and the Centurion Assembly will launch a just war as soon as possible, and punish the tyrannical Ariovistus"

"Life and death are uncertain." Cleopatra's heart was entangled, and then she immediately ordered her attendants to lift her sedan chariot, "Run, go to Apilon, yes, my friend Lipida's villa." ”

Before a day of daylight, Cleopatra came down in front of the bronze gate of the cottage, and when she passed barefoot through the short pine trees and cisterns in the front yard, she saw the front hall full of wailing and confusion, and the servants were kneeling around Potty, her face was pale, her eyes were closed, and the veteran's wife and Portia were holding the Akuta proclamation in their hands that recorded the doom of her man, and they were in tears, and today was the day of the reunion of the veteran's wife, who would have thought that Pothea was on the way to come, When he saw the unfortunate news, he came to tell Potty in a hurry.

"Don't be anxious, you don't panic, I'll go to Naples at once, get the best doctor from my father's palace, and send him to Gaul to heal my friend." At this time, even Cleopatra didn't know what to say, so she could only hurriedly say this, who would have thought that it had the opposite effect, how could Porti cry out in time, so she hid her face and wept again, and now the little queen also cried without a master, and the great cause of recovering the country is also going to be variable.

Little Leo and Corinna, according to Potty's instructions, were taken by Pope's wife to play in the back garden, Potty did not want this bad news to frighten the child, she quickly became in a trance, muttering to herself: "My man will not die, he is a man of God, he is not a mortal at all, not at all"

As a result, the villa of Appilon was full of crying. Pothea suddenly took Porti's hand and shouted, "Okay, let's hire some armed slaves, I'll accompany you to Gaul, don't be afraid, maybe your status will be limited, but I, as a woman of the Cato family, can take this team with me." ”

"Yes, yes." Potty stood up abruptly, shouting this.

But how should this group of women proceed at this time? Cleopatra's mind is still in turmoil, Potti never extends beyond the family, and Portia is clearly lacking in social experience, and they soon become overwhelmed. (End of Volume IV) (To be continued......)