Episode 6.3: Stabiae and the Eruption

 

Sextus nōn īrātus erat. tempus tamen premēbat. pumex maior in forum cecidit et prope pedēs eōrum iacuit, et adhūc calidus erat.

 

"spectāte," Sextus dīxit, et digitum ad verba posuit. "hīc: in Aegyptō. hīc: sub terrā. hīc: in Alexandrīam. hīc: cavum antīquum. Potentēs sub terrā habitant, prope Alexandrīam. intellegitisne?"

 

"intellegimus," Octāviāna dīxit.

 

digitum ad lapidem alterum mōvit. "et hīc: signum. et hīc: cellam. sine signō nēmō in cellam intrat. et postrēmum verbum, hoc: vōs interficimus."

 

Sextus Recentiōs graviter respexit.

 

"interficiunt," inquit. "hoc verbum vērum est."

 

terra iterum tremuit, et saxum ē mūrō forī cecidit.

 

"satis," Sextus dīxit. "iam intellegitis. Lapis in Aegyptō est, sub terrā, prope Alexandrīam, et signum habēre dēbēmus. nunc audīte. cūr Potentēs Lapidem tenent? hoc quoque scīre dēbētis."

 


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