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* ThanatosGambit: Cephalus writes a letter to Cogidubnus explaining Memor's role in the assassination plot. Cogidubnus recieves it just after Cephalus dies.
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* ThanatosGambit: Cephalus writes a letter to Cogidubnus explaining Memor's role in the assassination plot. Cogidubnus recieves receives it just after Cephalus dies.
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* OutOfFocus: Quintus drifts out of the limelight as protagonist as the stories focus increasingly on Salvius's MagnificentBastard antics. After safely reaching Agricola's camp in Stage 26, he doesn't show up again until Salvius's trial 14 chapters later.
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* OutOfFocus: Quintus drifts out of the limelight as protagonist as the stories focus increasingly on Salvius's MagnificentBastard antics. After safely reaching Agricola's camp in Stage 26, he doesn't show up again until Salvius's trial 14 chapters later.
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* IdiotBall: When Salvius claims Cogidubnus to be a traitor, Agricola becomes enraged and sends out soldiers to bring in Cogidubnus. After they leave, he calms down and asks Salvius for actual evidence of wrongdoing by Cogidubnus. The text draws attention to the fact that he didn't ask these questions ''before'' sending out the soldiers.
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* IdiotBall: When Salvius claims Cogidubnus to be a traitor, Agricola becomes enraged and sends out soldiers to bring in Cogidubnus.imprison Cogidubnus and crush his regime. After they leave, he calms down and asks Salvius for actual evidence of wrongdoing by Cogidubnus. The text draws attention to the fact that he didn't ask these questions ''before'' sending out the soldiers.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The Emperor, if Salvius really was acting under his orders.
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* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Salvius
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* IdiotBall: When Salvius claims Cogidubnus to be a traitor, Agricola becomes enraged and sends out soldiers to bring in Cogidubnus. After they leave, he calms down and asks Salvius for actual evidence of wrongdoing by Cogidubnus. The text draws attention to the fact that he didn't ask these questions ''before'' sending out the soldiers.
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* TheStarscream: Salvius to Cogidubnus. Belimicus to Salvius.
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* TheStarscream: Salvius to Cogidubnus. Belimicus to Salvius.betrays and usurps Cogidubnus, either out of ambition or under orders from the Emperor. Belemicus then turns against Salvius when he finds himself dissatisfied with his reward for helping him.
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* WhamLine: "That will is false. I wrote it, not Cogibubnus."
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* WhamLine: "That will is false. I wrote it, not Cogibubnus.Cogidubnus."
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* BiggerBad: The Emperor, if Salvius really was acting under his orders.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Grumio ancillam delectat!
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Salvius and Rufilla are quite the dysfunctional couple.
* BadBoss: Salvius in general, especially when he executes a slave being sold to him because the slave is sick, and therefore "useless."
* BadBoss: Salvius in general, especially when he executes a slave being sold to him because the slave is sick, and therefore "useless."
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Actius, the great actor, doesn't mind that his performance has been upstaged by a tightrope walker...because he's watching the tightrope walker too.
* ArcVillain: Eutychus, the Alexandrian racketeer who only appears for a single chapter in Unit II.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Salvius and Rufilla are quite the dysfunctionalcouple.
couple. This is partly to demonstrate that he's a ContrastingSequelMainCharacter when compared to Caecilius and Metella's relatively happy marriage.
* BadBoss: Salvius in general, especially when he executes a slave being sold to him because the slave is sick, and therefore "useless." "
* BasedOnATrueStory: Chapter 8 tells the story of a real event, in which a gladiatorial games turned into a bloody melee between the citizens of Pompeii and Nuceria.
* ArcVillain: Eutychus, the Alexandrian racketeer who only appears for a single chapter in Unit II.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Salvius and Rufilla are quite the dysfunctional
* BadBoss: Salvius in general, especially when he executes a slave being sold to him because the slave is sick, and therefore "useless.
* BasedOnATrueStory: Chapter 8 tells the story of a real event, in which a gladiatorial games turned into a bloody melee between the citizens of Pompeii and Nuceria.
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* BeautifulSlaveGirl: Grumio, the slave cook, has quite an eye for the slave-girls who apparently "please him" very much.
* BigBad: Salvius. ( And Vesuvius as well, in a sense.)
* BigBad: Salvius. ( And Vesuvius as well, in a sense.)
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* BeautifulSlaveGirl: Grumio, the slave cook, has quite an eye for the slave-girls who apparently "please him" very much.
Poppaea and Melissa in Unit I.
* BigBad: Salvius.( And (And Vesuvius as well, in a sense.)
* BigBad: Salvius.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Everybody dies in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, the end.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Everybody [[spoiler:Everybody except Quintus and Clemens dies in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, the end.]]]]
** Happens more than once. [[spoiler:Barbillus dies thanks to his [[BackAlleyDoctor crooked astrologer]], without getting the chance to make amends with his estranged son Rufus. Then Cogidubnus dies and Salvius seizes power in Britannia, despite Quintus's best efforts, and [[BarbarianHero Dumnorix]]'s HeroicSacrifice.]] It's rare to find a language learning course with a per capita body count higher than Series/GameOfThrones, but there you go.
** Happens more than once. [[spoiler:Barbillus dies thanks to his [[BackAlleyDoctor crooked astrologer]], without getting the chance to make amends with his estranged son Rufus. Then Cogidubnus dies and Salvius seizes power in Britannia, despite Quintus's best efforts, and [[BarbarianHero Dumnorix]]'s HeroicSacrifice.]] It's rare to find a language learning course with a per capita body count higher than Series/GameOfThrones, but there you go.
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* ElvesVsDwarves: Occurs in "The Debate", with the elegent, cultured Greeks being Elves and the soldiering, engineering Romans being Dwarves:
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* ElvesVsDwarves: Occurs in "The Debate", with the elegent, elegant, cultured Greeks being Elves and the soldiering, engineering Romans being Dwarves:
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-->'''Alexander:''' Us Greeks are creators. You look at Greek statues, you read Greek books, and listen to Greek rhetors.
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-->'''Alexander:''' Us We Greeks are creators. You look at Greek statues, you read Greek books, and listen to Greek rhetors.
* OutOfFocus: Quintus drifts out of the limelight as protagonist as the stories focus increasingly on Salvius's MagnificentBastard antics. After safely reaching Agricola's camp in Stage 26, he doesn't show up again until Salvius's trial 14 chapters later.
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* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Modestus and Strythio.
** Grumio and Clemens count as well.
** Modestus and Strythio.
** Grumio and Clemens count as well.
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** Given a blink-and-you'll-miss-it ShoutOut near the end of Book 1, mentioning the earthquake but changing the actual happening a little - Iulius asks why Caecilius wasn't scared of the enormous cloud and ashes, and he replies, "'iamprīdem terra tremuit. iamprīdem tremōrēs vīllās et mūrōs dēlēvērunt. sed larēs vīllam meam et familiam meam servāvērunt." ("a long time ago, the ground shook. A long time ago, the tremors destroyed houses and walls. But the household gods saved my family and my house.)
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** Given a blink-and-you'll-miss-it ShoutOut near the end of Book 1, mentioning the earthquake but changing the actual happening a little - Iulius asks why Caecilius wasn't scared of the enormous cloud and ashes, and he replies, "'iamprīdem terra tremuit. iamprīdem tremōrēs vīllās et mūrōs dēlēvērunt. sed larēs vīllam meam et familiam meam servāvērunt." ("a long time ago, the ground shook. A long time ago, the tremors destroyed houses and walls. But the household gods saved my family and my house.)")
* UnclePennybags: Lucius Caecilius Iucundus is a rich banker and tax collector who enjoys a good dirty joke, takes his son to the baths for his birthday, and is [[PapaWolf out of his mind with worry]] when separated from his family during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
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** Grumio abandoned Caecelius and his family (according to a workbook) and eventually escaped to Britannia, but ended up fleeing there after finding out one of the people he abandoned, Quintus, was coming to visit.
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** One of the workbooks reveals that Grumio survived. He abandoned Caecelius and his family (according to a workbook) and eventually escaped to Britannia, but ended up fleeing there after finding out one of the people he abandoned, Quintus, was coming to visit.
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** Oh come on, [[spoiler: Quintus and Clemens escape to have many more adventures!]]
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* FlashBack: Book 2 provided a not only a flashback [[HowWeGotHere of Clemens' time in between Britannia and Pompeii]] but a flashback inside this flashback.
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* FlashBack: {{Flashback}}: Book 2 provided a not only a flashback [[HowWeGotHere of Clemens' time in between Britannia and Pompeii]] but a flashback inside this flashback.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Modestus and Strythio.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: ThoseTwoGuys:
** Modestus and Strythio.
** Modestus and Strythio.
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* TheRomanEmpire: Well duh.
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A series of Latin textbooks which has some association with Cambridge. Due to the lack of Latin textbooks it basically became the only one used in the UK for the past forty years, causing most former classics students to remember it. It even got a shout-out in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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A series of Latin textbooks which has some association with Cambridge. published by Cambridge University Press and designed for use in secondary schools. Due to the lack scarcity of Latin textbooks (driven by the fact that most schools don't teach Latin) it basically became the only one used in the UK for the past forty years, causing most former classics students to remember it. It even got a shout-out in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
