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This person lived among the Painted People. He loved to sing a song in Latin.
Who is Guern?
Marcus would often meet Cottia here to visit.
What is Uncle Aquila's garden?
An item Marcus carved which he carried with him.
What is an olive-wood bird?
"There is no way back through the Water of Lethe."
Who is Guern?
The marking for a slave.
What is a clipped ear?
A standard tactical unit of a Roman legion – about 480 soldiers.
What is a Cohort?
A hunting friend of Marcus' who was also a charioteer.
Who was Cradoc?
The name of the Roman fortification that was built to "shut out the menace of the north."
What is Hadrian's Wall?
Marcus traveled in this to attend the Saturnalia Games.
What is a litter?
"We know that your justice is more sure than ours, and when we rise against you, we see our hosts break against the discipline of your troops, as the sea breaks against a rock. And we do not understand, because all these things are of an ordered pattern, and only the free curves of the shield-boss are real to us.”
Who is Esca?
Something Esca was doing at the end of the book that caught Marcus' attention?
What is whistling?
A person who examines and treats people's eyes.
What is an oculist?
The grandson of Tradui who finds Marcus and Esca hiding in the tower.
Who is Liathan?
The last place the Eagle was taken to before it received its burial at the foot of the shrine.
What is a watchtower?
The item that Esca realizes is missing when he returns with the Eagle to Marcus.
What is a ring brooch?
Who is Cottia?
The name of the tribe that carried off the Eagle.
Who are the Epidaii?
What is a sentry?
Described by Esca as "Smooth as a girl but a skilled hunter." He challenged Esca's loyalty to Marcus.
Who is Placidus?
Where Marcus and Esca found the Eagle.
What is the Place of Life temple?
Esca brings this to Marcus while Marcus is visiting with Cottia after almost a year of absence from each other.
What is a sealed papyrus roll?
“Strangely enough, it goes the better for seeing you safely home once more, even in the guise of a Tiber rat . . . in the guise of two Tiber rats.”
Who is Uncle Aquila?
What is draughts?
The number of cohorts in a Legion.
What is "10"?
Then name of the commanding officer who Marcus and Esca first report to when they return with the Eagle; he was also second-in-command when Marcus was the Cohort Commander.
Who is Drusillius?
A place back home that Marcus dreamed of returning to but, in the end, did not.
What are the Etruscean Hills?
The names of Marcus and Esca's mares.
Who are Vipsania and Minna?
“It always seems that I visit this house in a happy hour. The last time, it was Cub who came back, and this time it is you, but the reunion remains the same.”
Who is Claudius Hieronimianus?
What is:
A farewell address.
What is a Valedictory?