"Personally, I think you have to help Cicero, General, because we had an agreement with him before. As long as you can help Cicero go back, your reputation in the political arena can be revived immediately, and the year before you" Of course, when Demetrius saw Caesar's daughter holding Pompey's hand, he swallowed the latter sentence hard.

"To be bold, Julia is now my wife, and Caesar is my brother, what is there to hide." Pompey sat disapprerovingly on the grass under the parasol, and was just about to take off the funny ring of branches and leaves, but when he saw the coquettish eyes of Julia next to him, he could only make a gesture and brush the curly hair in front of his forehead with his hand, and said to Dmetrius.

"Yes, in fact, what the contemptible people want to say is that now Claudius's movements are getting more and more powerful, and his energy is becoming more and more arrogant, according to my inquiry, the guy named Li Bida, who has been constantly embarrassing you before, is now supporting Claudius behind his back. Therefore, even if it is out of the idea of suppressing Claudius's cancer, it must be "Before Demetrius could finish speaking, Julia whispered two words affectionately in Pompey's ear, and then Pompey also laughed, picked Julia up, and said to Demetrius that I would soon accompany my wife to the lake on an expedition, and she said that she had not seen how the greatest general in Roman history threw javelins at his prey, and she did not believe that I had ever hunted lions in the court hunting grounds of the pharaohs.

"As for Cicero's affairs, of course I will help. It is evening, Demetrius, and you go to my staff and lieutenants to discuss the matter, and when you have finished talking, you go back to the city of Rome and rescue poor Lady Cicero. Pompey put on bracers and a cape. These words were said to Demetrius without being salty. He smiled and walked towards Julia in that direction.

The Jews were behind them. A completely helpless expression: Now as long as you ride into the city of Rome alone, you can inspire all the senators, suppress Claudius, and the entire senate will be grateful to you, but now you are greedy for Julia's beauty, and you have missed the opportunity, you must know that Li Bida and Claudius join forces and move quickly.

But now, the Jews can only wave their hands. According to the master's orders, he went to talk to his staff.

As a result, in the early morning of the next day, Cicero himself fled the city of Rome and went into self-imposed exile, and in a cloud of cooking smoke, the former consul, the hero of the Republic who had destroyed the Catiline cabal, walked out of the Roman gates with his wife and a few soft-minded men, and he looked back. The morning sun covered the Palatine Hill in the cold air, and the magnificent villas of the rich were still dotted like pearls. But Cicero abandoned his own home, and when he looked at his beautiful home among the poplars, he wept again, but Lenchatt encouraged him and said, "Husband, what makes you so depressed? Is it a temporary loss of honor, or a loss of the house? But none of this is a fundamental problem, for we are still standing on Roman soil, and Claudius is confined to the city, and we need not fear him, and we have to live in a rented house on the outskirts of the city, and then contact your political friends, and the officials who admire you in the provinces, so that we will return to Rome on a market day, and not be intimidated by Claudius's bravado. ”

Hearing his wife's encouragement, Cicero could only take her hand in despair and agree to his wife's request.

But at this time, in the direction of Appian Avenue came several people in priestly robes, Cicero squinted, this is a member of the Brotherhood of Alvar, this priesthood serves the goddess Mother Earth, which has a very long history, but they also have a function, that is, to read the new decrees of the city of Rome, so as soon as he saw these people, Cicero's heart twitched, and he understood that Claudius would not be willing to just drive him out of Rome.

Sure enough, when one of the priests saw Cicero, he stood up and read in front of him the new decree of the tribune, which stipulated that no nobles or commoners were to be allowed to provide food for Cicero and his wife and family within a radius of 500 Roman miles outside the city of Rome, and this additional decree came into effect immediately.

After hearing this cruel decree, even Lenchat, who had been persuading her husband strongly, also fell on her husband's shoulder and wept bitterly, and then the light flashed, and the husband and wife looked up like a comet that marked calamity, and saw their mansion on Palatine Hill, the mansion full of tall poplar trees, and quickly rose black smoke and red tongues of fire - "Claudius is burning my house!" That lawless mob, my idol of Minerva. ”

The statue of Minerva, which remained in his mansion and was the object of Cicero's worship, has now fallen to the dirt and trampled at the feet of the arsonist mob, and the base of the statue is engraved with the words "Dedicated to Minerva, the patron saint of Rome", in which the mob smashed the door of the mansion, looted the valuable utensils and furniture inside, cut down all the trees in the courtyard, and smashed the bronze monument of Cicero standing in front of the door with a hammer inscribed with his exploits, and replaced it with Claudius himself. New bronze tablets engraved with Cicero's "crimes" were eventually fished out by the mob and turned into a delicacy in their bellies.

In fact, it was not for nothing that the Senate spoke for Cicero, and even passed an overwhelming resolution calling for a moment of silence for this disastrous day, but Claudius in the Temple of the Goddess of Virtue was furious when he heard of this resolution, and instructed many mobs to surround the Temple of Concorde.

At this time, the two consuls, who had been elected for the coming year, also sent their respective servants to the Appian Highway and expressed their views to the Ciceros.

Caesar's father-in-law, Pisso, was particularly polite, and he begged Cicero to bear with him for a while, and when Claudius's anger had passed, he would write to Caesar and Pompey to mediate his return to Rome; And Pompey's confidant Gabinus, who must have been laughed at by Cicero for his stupidity, replied extremely rudely, saying that Cicero was completely self-inflicted on himself as he is today.

Cicero couldn't help but think of Pompey from Gabinus's attitude, and he said to his wife fiercely and disappointed that he had been let down by Pompey again, and that the biggest mistake of my life was to mistake him for my friend.

At this moment, Cicero, who was holding the letterboard, calmed down, and he comforted his wife, saying that it was okay, Claudius's additional decree came into effect within a radius of five hundred miles, so we should go to Sicily, where the governor Vicilius was my closest friend, and he would definitely take me in.

Who would have thought that the couple would endure hunger, and when they reached the next day, Vicilius took the initiative to send a letter to Cicero, which contained nothing else, asking Cicero not to come to his province, "Sicily does not welcome criminals who have been expelled from the city of Rome." (To be continued......)

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