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Roman Saga. Volume I. The City of Temptations

15 chapters in English (free of charge). The Roman Saga, The City of Temptations
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15 chapters in English
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During a next civil war in the Roman Republic, Sulla’s army’s three legionnaire accidentally discover that there is enormous wealth stored in the main Etruscan temple. Even though they are ordered to kill the priests, they yield to temptation and save the Etruscans to get to their gold. However, they cannot succeed in taking advantage of this treasure. Nor their descendants, many of whom have not known about its existence till the end of their lives. Latium Cornelius Scipio was a son of one of the three lucky warriors. He lost his parents early and was adopted by his relatives in early childhood. He was a child of his time and he chose the path of war, like most children of patrician families. He takes part in several military campaigns and, thanks to his strength, skills and intelligence, quickly becomes known among the fellow-legionnaire. While he is serving in Caesar’s army in Gaul, fate confronts him with a strange girl who gives him a mysterious medallion with three circles, which exactly repeat a mark on his shoulder. His father made this tattoo for him in infancy, but he had no time to explain why. A number of fatal coincidences and lack of money force Latium to join Marcus Licinius Crassus’s army, who is going to conquer Parthia and India in search of fame and untold wealth. Latium also needs money to restore his position in Rome’s aristocratic circles and marry the most beautiful courtesan in Rome, whom he had fallen in love before preparing the campaign in Asia. But dreams do not always coincide with reality, and wealth does not always come only through violence and murder. Once in place of those whom he came to conquer, Latium faces manifestations of the basest of human nature – betrayal, meanness and envy. Unfortunately, these are beautiful women who often become the cause of his severe trials because his courage and boldness attract them while they make other men around envious and jealous. As the fates decree, Latium gets the most distant countries, which no one ever heard about in Rome. He is particularly struck with a huge country of silk – Serres, where people even look different from the Romans, not to mention the habits, traditions and their way of life. In that country he becomes one of the first foreigners who meets with the Emperor Yuan Di and one of Empire’s four legendary beauties - Minfey. He loses his true friends on this way and with a heavy heart feels more and more lonely. Life again forces him to become a soldier and a servant, he wins and loses battles but his dream remains unchanged – he wants to return to Rome, where he will unexpectedly find even more serious ordeals to undergo. However, he does not realize that they all relate to the mysterious mark on his shoulder

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