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... d the last clerks. Candlelight played across the surface of his cedar table, where each scroll spoke of an empire subdued to logic and order. From beyond the arched window came the music of labor-hammers striking marble for the new basilica, the Moselle’s banks glowing with kiln fires and forges, every corner of the city alive with movement and resolve. Within the chamber, only the faint scrape of a stylus disturbed the stillness.
Claudius Mamertinus read his figures with the reverence o ...
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