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... y’s familiar rhythms bent under a pressure greater than any storm. Carpets of wild iris lined the marshes, and fishermen tacked their sails in the breeze, but above the water the air itself quivered-heavy with the approach of something the world had never seen.
They came by the emperor’s order, and the emperor’s coin, from every horizon of the Roman world. Bishops from Gaul and Britannia wore the weather of their journeys in their cloaks and faces; men from Egypt and the Libyan sands bor ...
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