Is Meto alive and playing some treacherous game on Caesar's behalf? Or did he die in an attempt to escape from Pompey's minions in Massilia? Saylor presents a vivid tableau of an ancient city under siege and an empire riven by internecine strife. Then for no apparent reason the tide relented for a moment. In the meantime, he continues to search for information about his missing son. In 105 BC the forces of the pro-consul Caepio and the consul Mallius were annihilated by the Cimbri at the Battle of Arausio (Orange), ancient sources estimating the the losses up to even 80вЂ™000 or 100вЂ™000 men. nellodierna cittГ francese di Orange, in Provenza, fra le legioni di Roma e le tribГ№ nomadi di alcuni popoli germanici, Cimbri e Teutoni, i piГ№ numerosi, accompagnati dagli Ambroni e Tigurini. The leader of Massilia, Apollonides, promises to investigate, but when a Gaulish merchant named Arausio believes his daughter, Rindel, was the cloaked woman who fell, Gordianus begins his own queries. La battaglia di Arausio fu combattuta il 6 ottobre 105 a.C. Gordianus later witnesses what looks like murder: a cloaked woman falls from Sacrifice Rock, perhaps assisted by a man dressed in the armor of a Massilian soldier. There he meets Hieronymus, whom the priests have selected as the scapegoat who will throw himself off the harbor's Sacrifice Rock to appease the gods and bring relief to the city. Metelli one of the greatest families in Rome in that day. Nursia, his home town, was a Sabine town.

Sabines ancient tribe of people to the north of the Romans, citizens of Rome in SertoriusвЂ™ day. Gordianus finds Massilia under siege, but thanks to an odd stroke of luck that brings disaster to the besieging army, he's able to slip into the city. Gnaeus Mallius Maximus The other commander at Arausio (consul 105 BC). The ancient sources quote the two armies as being between 60,000. The Cimbri and the Teutoni had invaded the Roman province of Transalpine Gaul about 110 bc. Caught in the morass of conflicting loyalties, Gordianus the Finder travels to the independent city-state of Massilia (present-day Marseilles) to investigate a rumor that his son, Meto, has been killed there. lArausio: Elegant food alongside an ancient Roman theater - See 298 traveler reviews, 96 candid photos, and great deals for Orange, France, at Tripadvisor. Mallius Maximus, was dispatched with a fresh Roman army. 6, 105 bc ), the defeat of a Roman army by Germanic tribes near Arausio (now Orange in southern France). In Saylor's latest and stellar historical (after Rubicon), the Roman world is still embroiled in civil war between rival generals Pompey and Julius Caesar.

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