Episode 11.2.b
>Alexandria, Aegyptus, 80 CE<
"Good," says Tertius. "That is a great deal of help. Now I think we can use it. If I'm right about the way the Societas Potentium works, and I usually am, for reasons you shouldn't think about, they chose the site of their praetorium with care. They would have wanted a place that mattered to the Lapis, and to the future of Rome...
"And there it is. Now I know what we have to do. I have an exemplum ready. It will tell us something about the Societas Potentium, because the Potentes were once in Africa.
"But first, tell me this. What do you know about the Punic Wars? How did they begin? Do you think the Societas Potentium had a hand in the cause?"
Prompt: Tell Tertius why Rome got into the Punic Wars, and what those wars might have had to do with the struggle between the conservative Societas Potentium and the progressive Milites Lapidis.
