[Ancient Rome] How to Divorce the Tyrant Nero

"Octavia, why have you been staring at the beaten gladiator? Could it be that you have taken a fancy to him?" Messalina, who was hoarse from her praise, coughed a few times, and was about to stop to drink, but Noticing that her daughter was staring at something motionless, she rolled her eyes, called her secretary and said, "Let the manager of the arena bring that guy, and by the way, ask them if they have any better stuff recently." .”

After regaining her senses, Octavia looked at her mother's smiling face, and was teased by the other party: "Although that Thracian gladiator is a bit too old for Spartacus, he may be your Chiron. "

"Unless all the men in Rome are dead, I will never be able to go to the battlefield in my life." Octavia looked at the audience and booed the defeated gladiators who were taken away from the arena. Thumbs down gesture.

Even at a considerable distance, Octavia could clearly feel that the gladiator exuded a sense of escape from death all over his body.Even though he had already left the arena, his tense muscles did not relax completely, but deeper veins burst out.

"Put him in shackles, and then flush him with water. I don't want this guy to scare the queen and princess." The secretary in charge of picking up looked at the crooked nose of the gladiator, couldn't help but frowned, and then directed Followed by the accompanying slaves, he wiped his body and trimmed his beard slightly.

"I'll meet with the queen and princess later, and you can answer whatever you ask, don't talk nonsense." The secretary led the gladiator with tight lips into the box, and then floated back behind Messalina like a shadow.

"Is that him?" Messalina glanced at the gladiator who had survived with a rather critical look, and subconsciously sarcastically said: "Octavia, your vision in this aspect is really bad. A gladiator of this kind, even a Thracian, can’t be sold for a good price. Besides, he’s not too young, so he doesn’t want to give it away for free.”

The picked gladiator lowered his head, like a dead man with his throat cut, unable to make any strong refutation to Messalina's words.

Octavia had no intention of buying this gladiator, but according to the current situation, if she said that she was not interested, the gladiator would be dragged into the arena and executed immediately.

After all, in ancient Rome, defeated gladiators would be beheaded or fed to lions in public as a sideshow during the intermission unless they were loved by a large number of audiences and thus received thumbs up one by one.

"I see that you are working very hard on the field, did you make some kind of deal with the owner of the arena?" Octavia glanced at the calfskin skirt on the gladiator again, put aside the sudden inspiration, and asked more casually One sentence: "Does he have family or friends in this arena?"

The silent gladiator raised his head in surprise, and even the manager on the side put away his obsequious smile, and said for a moment, "Yes, his son is here too."

After all, the administrator glanced at the excited gladiator, secretly stepped on his foot as a warning, and then took the first step and said: "He was originally the lieutenant general of Lord Plautius, that is, Flavius Lord Weissian of the family was a slave who participated in the Battle of Britain, but for some reason, he was sold here after Lord Weissian returned from Britain in triumph."

"Master Vespasian? I remember that his father once served as the centurion of Pompey and escaped from the battlefield of Pharsalus." Octavia said playfully, "Although that was before I was born. , but I heard from my grandfather that after Pompey's defeat, many people laughed at the cowardice and dishonesty of the Flavius ​​family, and as a result, they all lived shorter than Lord Vespasian's father."

The manager could only smile awkwardly at this. After all, although the Flavius ​​family was only a knight class, and had once been an enemy of Octavia's ancestor, Gaius Julius Caesar, but because Pon The former Patriarch of Peipai retreated in time, coupled with Vespasian’s achievements in the Battle of Britain, he was fortunate to be introduced by Marcus Barbatus to the new Emperor Claudius, and gradually he rose to the top Potential.

This kind of big man with unlimited future is not something that the manager of freed slaves can comment on at will, that is to say, Octavia can make a few sarcasm by virtue of her status.

"Lord Weissian has always been very supportive of my master's business." The administrator Chale wiped the cold sweat from his neck and said, "You also know that our business depends on the success of the Roman army."

"Okay, don't talk so much nonsense. Octavia, do you want this gladiator?" Seeing that the intermission was about to end, Messalina said dissatisfiedly: "It's just a sentence anyway, you can't Don't delay me to continue watching the game."

"Of course I want to buy him." Octavia, who hadn't had time to ask many questions, looked helplessly at the dissatisfied Messalina, and added before the gladiator could speak: "How much is his son worth? "

"Look at what you said, how dare you ask the honorable daughter of Claudius for money? It's all my master's little care. Just take them away." Anyway, this gladiator is not worth two A thousand dinars might as well be used as a favor to make a good impression on Octavia.

As for the gladiator's son, although he is a young Thracian boy with fighting talent, it still takes a lot of money and years of initial investment to cultivate him into an outstanding gladiator, so let him follow along. Let your useless father go together!

The gladiator, who couldn't believe that he could be bought by Claudius's daughter, knelt down on one knee first, and then kissed Octavia's skirt as a token of allegiance to his new master: "Since this time From now on, my son and I will dedicate everything to you."

"Hmm!" Octavia replied casually, and asked as the new owner: "What's your name?"

"Drausus."

"Where's your son?"

"Doryphrus."

"what?"

"Doryphrus."

Octavia couldn't believe the name she heard, so she asked again, causing the administrator on the side to ask a little uneasy: "Do you not like the name Dory Flux?"

Drausus, who was also disturbed, was afraid that his son would be returned, so he hurriedly said: "You can change him to a name you like, any name is fine." His dead father, but at the moment of his life, Drausus did not care about his son's dignity.

"It's not that I don't like the name, it's just that I didn't hear it clearly for a while, so I'll confirm it again." The biggest advantage of the fake child is that he can process his facial expressions in time.

Octavia pretended to be calm, so that the administrator and Drausus breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, but after they retreated, Octavia didn't even have the heart to think about other things, let alone continue watching the game. I can complain about the pranks of fate over and over again in my heart.

Doryphrus, the historical freedman and "husband" of Nero.

God, is this going to stuff all the people related to Nero into her side?

Frankly speaking, Octavia didn't have the jealousy when she met her rival for Dory Flux, but wanted to say "well done."

If Dory Flux could crush the BT emperor to death earlier, maybe the historical Octavia would not have died so early.

The author has something to say:

Spartacus: The hero of the slave revolution in ancient Rome, because of him, the value of Thracian gladiators skyrocketed.

Vespasian: The last emperor in the Year of the Four Emperors, because he has the same name as his son, both named Titus, so in order to distinguish the two, he is still called by a more widely known name.

Battle of Pharsalus: In 48 BC, the decisive battle of the Roman Civil War between the populist army headed by Caesar and the aristocratic republican army headed by Gnaeus Pompey.Caesar's victory in this battle made him the actual supreme ruler of the Roman Republic. Rome began to transform from a republic to an empire, while Pompey fled to Egypt and was killed. (taken from Baidu Encyclopedia)