Going Native, Chapter 16: The Penalty of Adam - Part I
"I've one mouth but many voices. I dissemble and often change my tune." Exeter Book riddle
Previously: Going Native, Chapter 15: Diary of a birth - Part II
Legate, I had the news last night - my cohort ordered home
By ships to Portus Itius and thence by road to Rome.
I've marched the companies aboard, the arms are stowed below:
Now let another take my sword. Command me not to go!
I've served in Britain forty years, from Vectis to the Wall,
I have n…
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