Article about Web #15
After shutting after itself door, German was removed. However, after the minute, it
returned that newly Web holding in other hand the fragment, symmetrical so that it was
recently produced. Then, after opening both folds, slaves it invited traveller into
the house, after sending in this case to the kitchen of its accompanied galatov.
However, it conducted guest into the internal cavity.
At the edge of Web font, situated among the cavity, relying on the elbow-rest of bed,
at the table -trikliniem reclined very owner of this house, dressed in the white
tunic with the wide sleeves.
In the seventh to the hour of day on the eve of April non on the twelfth year of
web administration, when consuls were Lentul Of getulik and Guy Kalviziy, to
Rome along the Appian Way, thundering by wheels on its plates, drove up covered
vegikula. Besides voznitsy in it was situated the man in the road raincoat -polliume, put on above the Greek tunic, accompanied by two slaves -galatami, who fulfilled duties of servants and bodyguards. Here already passed the ruins of the ancient temple of Mars with his there is no time famous wolf statues lying on the second mile, whose bases now only hardly guessed. Then seemed the temple of honor and valor, built by Marcellus even during the second punic war and richly decorated then outputs, that was reached to Rome after the taking Of sirakuz. True, now from the larger part of this of dobychm remained some legends alone and recollections. Opposite this temple was raised the altar of fortune -Vozvratitelnitsy, built into consulate quint Lucretia and Mark Vinitsiya and dedicated to this wilful goddess in the honor of the satisfactory return of August from the prolonged journey to the east. After passing between these two sanctuaries, vegikula entered to Rome through The kapenskie gates. Without dropping in to the city web center, where it was not be pushed because of the
large accumulation of people, which poured out out of its houses in order to look
to the celebrations, dedicated by incipient yearly during this day Megalesiyskim to
games, it turned to the right in the public pond between the large circus and the
large web market and along the sacred street arrived at the southern extremity Of servieva of shaft. Here in Eskvilinskikh gates all, except voznitsy, left vehicle and, looping on the narrow by-streets, on foot they were directed to Kariny to the western foot Of eskvilinskogo hill.
After finding error-free necessary to it house, traveller by intricate prearranged
web signal knocked into his oak doors by the ring, passed through into the mouth of
the poured from the bronze head of the jellyfish Of gorgony. Left valve was opened,
and the one-eyed person of German- guard, distorted by the terrible scar, which
passes on the left cheek from the chin to the knocked out eye, it seemed in the door aperture. Saying nothing, traveller removed from the hand bronze bracelet- purse and gave to German the piece of the cut in half silver extracted from there sestertsiya.
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