Episode 11.3.a

>Off the coast of Sicily, aboard Duilius's flagship, 260 BCE<

vōs aegrī estis. mare vōs aegrōs facit.

 

Tertius prope vōs stat. Tertius nōn aeger est, nam est TSTT-figūra.

 

imperātor Rōmānus in nāve adest, sed vōs nōn videt. in alterā parte nāvis stat. īnsulās procul spectat.

 

"ō imperātor!" vir in prīmā parte nāvis vocat. "corvus parātus est!"

 

tum illud mīrum vidētis: est pōns magnus, sed nōn iacet. rēctus stat, ad lignum altum in prīmā parte nāvis, et in altissimā parte pontis est dēns ferreus, ingēns. Rōmānī hoc "corvum" vocant: nōmen avis est.

 

imperātor sibi dīcit, et vōs audītis:

 

"sed Scīpiō dīxit... ego ōrātiōnem faciō? potentia Lapidis? quid est? Asina captus est. et fābula illa rīdicula dē classe, quam Rōmānī sexāgintā diēbus fēcērunt, nihil mē iuvat. aliud cōnsilium nōn habeō."

 


Prompt: Get the imperator's attention in a way that doesn't make him suspicious.

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