The surrounding civilians, including the parents of the bear children, were frightened, and in a puff of dust, several bear children were bleeding from the corners of their mouths, curled up on the ground, rolling around and moaning. Calabis straightened up, shook his hair, exhaled a long breath, and whispered to Potty, "Tighten Paruma and follow me." ”

At this time, the people who reacted began to surround Calabis, and one of the young nobles, who looked like the guy who had followed Catiline in the square yesterday, threatened Calabis: "You are finished, alien, you have hurt the citizens of Rome, or in the daytime, your behavior is equivalent to a night thief, and we have the right to whip you, flog you to death, in full accordance with the laws of Rome." ”

In the midst of the crowd, Calabis held Paluma tightly, and while reaching for the hilt of his sword under his cloak, he replied to the young nobleman in Latin: "A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, an insult for me, a beating." If you give me a scourge, I will repay it with the sword. This sentence was actually the link of lynching and revenge in the "Twelve Bronze Tables Law" quoted by Calabis, and the young nobleman was stunned, this alien freeman actually talked about the law?

"Don't be delusional, you are a foreign race, and Roman law does not apply at all."

“iurisgentiumsunt，itaqueinteromneshomines，sivecivesromanes，siveperegrinos，valent！” Calabis retorted as he walked quietly, meaning that "the law of all peoples applies to all people, whether Romans or aliens." ”

Earlier, Rome had only one set of civil laws, which applied to citizens; Later, with the increase of foreign disputes and the number of people of different races, a set of civil laws was formulated. Calabis was not afraid of these people at all, and what Kelly had done that day was very clear, what kind of civic privilege was nothing more than a fig leaf for these poor ghosts who received relief food and begged for food from the warlords and chaebols.

The aristocratic young man was anxious and shouted: "To kill this alien is to pay money to his patron at most, citizens of Rome, is there no law and god to protect you?" The civilians were agitated and swarmed up, armed with sticks and iron, and Calabis gritted his teeth, drew his dagger from under his cloak, and made a stabbing position like a legionnaire (in fact, he would not do anything at all), "Get out of the way, and don't touch his family", and the men were frightened again, and they retreated.

Just when the situation was at a stalemate, a tall and thin old man dressed in a white coat outside shouted: "When did the court of Rome be placed in the block?" When they saw it in a flash, it was the Greek rhetorician Tyranion, who had been captured in Sinop, and he had come from another junction and happened to see the scene, "Oh, isn't this my old friend Calabis, who has also returned to Rome with the triumphant general Lucuras?" ”

"Yes, scholars! I also came back on the Apollo, but you and the general were in the VIP cabin and didn't notice our family. Calabis shouted.

"Don't call me a scholar, that would make me look too weak." The thin old man staggered close to the crowd and said, "I am now a freeman of Lucuras, and under his protection, I want to open a little rhetorical school in the city, and you know where Lucuras's mansion is?" Rome is nothing short of a chaotic grocery yard, and sorry, its streets are barely straight. It's really damning. ”

The aristocratic young man, anxious to do his job, yelled, "Get out of here, Greek," and rushed to Tyrannan, intending to punch him with his old fist. Calabis hurriedly shouted for Tyranion to get out of the way, but Tylanion's punch opened a dojo on the bridge of the "golden youth's" nose, and the guy fell backwards with a rainbow nosebleed.

Tyrannan then jumped into the crowd, struck left and right, and knocked over several armed men in a few clicks, leaving Calabis stunned.

Tyranion muttered, "Don't call me a Greek," rearranged his slightly scattered white hair with his hands, and said with a smile to Calabis: "Friend, can you take me to the general's mansion, I think we should be on the same road." ”

Walking down the bustling neighborhood, Tylangnon asked, "I don't know that you still know the laws of Rome in Calabis." ”

"Yes, I used to serve the Lord for a time in the barracks, and he carried with him many books on the Law." Calabis recalled.

"Yes, but Calabis, I sincerely advise you that there is a long time to learn in the city of Rome, but not the law, you know, that lawyers and military service are the starting point of Roman citizens' political careers, and they will not give foreigners a chance in this regard. You may wish to study the rhetoric, and if you have acquired the essence of the Greek school, it is a pleasant thing to open a little academy on some beautiful island and eat expensive bunches, and you will not be discouraged by your status as a free man. Tyrannan suggested with a smile.

Calabis looked down for a moment, then saw Poti and the little pigeon behind him, and then ran in front of Tylagnon and asked loudly: "Scholar, what was your boxing technique just now?" ”

"Oh, that's a little study of mine, it's called fighting boxing, it's a combination of Greek boxing and ancient Thracian martial arts, I learned it on the island of Samit in Thrace when I was younger."

"But didn't Centurion Highbrida often mock the Greeks for not having the physique and fighting spirit?" Calabis continued to ask curiously.

Tylangnon pouted: "Maybe, maybe we're thinking too much about philosophy." But the Greeks were not weak, for example, they wrestled, fists, and swam, which are some of the additional ways in which we Greeks cultivate our sentiments. ”

"Then please teach me this kind of fistfighting!" Calabis shouted and pleaded.

The Greek scholar paused, then laughed mildly: "Calabis, with your proficiency in the language, I think that the study of rhetoric and logic is the most howard." And I'm amazed that you have to learn this last skill. Then he lifted the bowed Calabis up with one hand, "But it is always a good thing to study, and after going to see Lucuras, the next day you will come to me in a domed white building with a garden at the mouth of the river, and the tuition fee is not less, fifteen drachmas a day, we are old friends, and it is good enough, and generally I teach rhetoric from fifty drachmas a day." ”

Rub, fifteen heavy silver coins a day, then after learning to become a teacher, at least one or two thousand drachmas will be reimbursed, but in a city full of whirlpools like Rome, as a grass people, what you must learn first is the skill of self-preservation.

In a short time, in the elm grove on the Palatine Hill, the gate of Lucuras's house was kindly open, and Calabis walked in front of him, respectfully guiding the new master Tyranion, into it, and by the grape trellises and fountains in the forecourt, many of the freedmen who had been sheltered by Lucuras, as well as the dignitaries of the city, stood there, and Kelly was handing out the money one by one, and gave the money bag to Calabis, who praised him with admiration: "The triumphal style is well done!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I, Marcos, and Kelly, thank you for coming, and even more so for the assistance you gave me in the triumphal ceremony." On the arcade, Lucuras, dressed in a purple robe, accompanied by his brother Marcus, walked out, and then he was clubbed there, a little not knowing what to say - he was a member of the Senate after he stepped down as consul, and his political career had reached its peak, or rather the end, and then he pinned all his hopes and energy in his life on the war against Mithridates, hoping to be immortalized in the history of the city of Rome, but the result of this war, it cannot be said that he lost, but it cannot be said that he won, Zuihou brought him only a vague judgment, a small triumphal gesture that was already equally vague.

History, has left him behind.

In a moment of loneliness, Luculas endured it, smiled, beckoned with his hand, and said, "Today, all the guests, please enjoy the feast!" ”