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   1 in his journal dated the ides of october in the year of the consulships of caec eli us tullius
   2 capito pompon ian us plot i us firm us and gaius cornelius galli can us agricola wrote the mystery
   3 of the battle at camu lo donum is at last solved cal gac us maybe a barbarian now but he was a roman
   4 citizen then who betrayed us all for love of a barbarian it has taken all my skills as a leader of
   5 men to keep him alive the legionnaires spend their evenings designing new and cruel ways to execute
   6 him in revenge for the shame he brought upon us but his life is precious it is the only card left to
   7 play in our search for salvation and the return of the stolen aquilae if we can also recover the
   8 codex then perhaps its loss can be concealed and our lives will be spared releasing the roman
   9 traitor cal gac us must have stuck in the proud agricola s throat but he made a pact with the
  10 remaining caledon ii and travelled north to exchange the prisoner for the aquilae and the codex but
  11 the cunning caledonian tribesman set another trap and presented agricola with a forgery cunningly
  12 assembled with pages from the books stolen when the tribe ransacked mons grau pius for too long the
  13 sons of rome had underestimated the people in britannia and while the aquila of the legion had been
  14 restored by the exchange their honour was not agricola faced a return to rome humiliation and almost
  15 certain death the sixth chapter of my tale of woe is guarded by lightning bull and oak