Augustus Road

The street poet was immediately frightened, and then the whole scene changed. Several armed slaves immediately grabbed Piatius, punched him hard, and then picked him up and threw him firmly to Pulai. Outside Ma's villa, the poet first fell down on the street like a straight ruler, and then stood up like a folding ruler. His mouth and nostrils were bleeding. He really didn't know how an ordinary poem describing same-sex love could be so exciting. The former cavalry commander was so angry and disgusted.

However, Lepidus soon changed his mind and sent another slave. When the poet thought that this time he was going to beat him alive in the street, what he got was another invitation from the master, "but the salary will be cut in half."

So Piatyus wiped away the nosebleed again, went back happily, and stood beside Lepidus' armchair, showing that he was a "chosen" talent, even though he was injured and lost some honors. Then Lepidus saw the team The middle-aged young man with dry blond hair turned around to leave with complicated emotions when he stopped him in advance and asked his name.

The helpless blond young man could only turn around and bow to the former cavalry commander without any disrespect and said, "My name is Publius Vigilius Marlowe. In fact, I was very excited at first. You are so excited." You must know that I was born in a village in the province of Cisalpine Gaul, and my parents are Latins and Gauls. Maybe, maybe, only you and Caesar are willing to recognize my desire to integrate into Rome by writing poetry, so I brought it with me today. The poem is here, but, but, I saw what you did just now. It seems that you are not particularly interested in real art, so..." These words comforted Virgil, so he became serious. Li Bida held up the poem, which made Lebid feel very familiar and liked him. He seemed to recall the scene of him organizing and participating in the poetry club in school in the previous era. Then Virgil's stuttering disappeared and he read slowly but sonorously, "This is the hometown of Luanyun, this place. Pregnant with violent storms, here King Aeolus controlled the struggling winds and howling storms in the huge cave." After reading just a few lines, the people around him couldn't help but applaud. Especially little Horace cast an envious look at him.

Later, Li Bida also expressed his sincere appreciation. He immediately said to Virgil, you are the leader of the team. Of course, your job is not to go to the ancient city of Troy with picks and shovels, but you can sit in the halls and temples of Lepidus Castle, Enjoy sun-filled beds and fine wine. Recording the surrounding beautiful scenery and the customs and customs Aeneas had traveled along the way, he wrote it into a poem - "However, my dear Virgil, maybe your opening introduction can be changed." These words made Virgil immediately stay where he was, unable to He lost his temper. The naturalized foreigner in front of him now had power in Rome, with influence across the government and the public. He had countless patrons under his subordinates, and was also Caesar's most trusted deputy. In addition, before he came to apply for the army, of course he knew it in his bones. , what is the purpose of Caesar and Lepidus spending so much money to "explore" the roots of the Roman nation? Isn't it just to put on a sacred robe for their dictatorial rule over the Republic? That’s why I think of these poets and want to introduce them to the magnificent upper class. This is what Virgil expected. The creation of poets is like "a mother bear licking her cubs", often spending a lot of energy. Hundreds of lines of work were completed in the manuscript, but only a few lines were finally condensed. They could not afford it, and Virgil's biggest dream in life was to be able to proudly say, "Greek poets, please make way. , because I want to create.”

Thinking of this, Virgil still lowered his head and expressed his willingness to consider the request of the former cavalry commander, so Lepidus couldn't help laughing happily, pointing at Virgil and said, "The greatest achievement of a poet is to create his own world, isn't it? So Phaethon This character can be seen as the anise that spices up the entire epic. Even a republic that conquers the entire Europe still needs to import things it doesn’t need from distant foreign countries, right?”

These words relieved Virgil's psychological burden, and then Lepidus ordered that all those who came to apply for the job today would be given gifts worth two hundred dinars, and an additional three hundred dinars would be added to those who were successful. "If it were not for the previous For Roman citizens, citizenship rights are granted in advance in accordance with the Act of Aemilius. Don’t worry, this has been approved by Caesar long ago. After so many years of war, according to the statistics of our Executive Yuan, the citizen population of Rome has dropped by half, so Caesar is implementing a new plan. He plans to colonize the 80,000 poorest and most propertyless citizens in Teblis overseas based on property qualifications, distribute them land and settlement funds, and at the same time, make the other provinces rich. Active people were brought in and granted citizenship, so that the Roman city became the most civilized and stable city in the world. "

Then, Lepidus got up and asked the poets and writers to go to Kelly's place to receive their allowances and rewards. At this time, under the flower gallery, someone suddenly started crying, which startled Lepidus. He looked closer and saw that it was Si. Dr. Kitai Timothy!

Just now, Timotheus, who came to pay his respects according to the rules, actually started crying after hearing what Lepidus said. It turned out that he was sad because he had been neglected, especially when he heard that Lepidus said that he should attract foreigners to become regulars. After becoming a citizen, he became even more uneasy, fearing that Lebida would miss him by mistake.

So Li Bi Da immediately comforted him, saying that he would never forget his former friend, "In Caesar's new citizenship granting plan, those who only know how to eat relief food and sell votes are to be relocated, and the focus is on keeping the foreign rich, as well as writers, doctors, architects and other people. Timothy, tell me, how much assets do you have now when you open a clinic?"