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It's early morning on a cool spring day in Rome, 44 BC. A man walks ahead of his

advisors towards the Senate. The hem of his stately purple toga whispering at his ankle.

The sun is only just rising above the rooftops of the city, but the streets are already

coming alive. From the Thermapolio food stalls that serve the common citizens. The scent

of baking bread and wheat pancakes with dates and honey mingle with the early morning

mist. Traders are beginning to set out their wares. It will be a busy day. If it's today,

the Iads of March is sacred to the God Jupiter. Tonight is the first full moon of the new

year to be celebrated with drinking and feasting. But there is serious business to be done too.

Along the wide street of Via Sacra, preparations are being made for the processions of the

religious leaders who will later bring the Iads sheep to be sacrificed. The man knows

the ceremony well. When still in his teens, he himself was the high priest of Jupiter.

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