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Colossus
The Four Emperors
David Blixt
Copyright (C) 2013 David Blixt
Layout design and Copyright (C) 2018 by Creativia
Published 2018 by Creativia
Cover art by Cover Mint
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the author's permission.
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For Doug Sills
POSSUNT, QUIA POSSE VIDENTUR
They can, because they think they can.
Virgil
The Aeneid
Book V
NERO NERO CLAUDIUS CAESAR DRUSUS AUGUSTUS GERMANICUS, born LUCIUS DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS, Imperator of Rome's legions, Pontifex Maximus, Princeps Senatus (leader of the Senate)
POPPAEA POPPAEA SABINA, divorced from Otho, wife to Nero, d. 65 AD
STATILIA STATILIA MESSALINA, married to Nero 66 AD
GENS FLAVIA (FLAVIUS FAMILY)
OLD SABINUS TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS SENIOR, Senator
VESPASIAN TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS SENIOR, his brother, Senator, general of the war in Judea
SABINUS TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS JUNIOR, son of Old Sabinus, Senator
TERTIUS TITUS FLAVIUS SABINUS TERTIUS, elder son of Sabinus
CLEMENS TITUS FLAVIUS CLEMENS, younger son of Sabinus
TITUS TITUS FLAVIUS VESPASIANUS JUNIOR, elder son of Vespasian, Senator
DOMITIAN TITUS FLAVIUS DOMITIANUS, younger son of Vespasian
CERIALIS QUINTUS PETILLIUS CERIALIS CAESIUS RUFUS, Senator, Vespasian's son-in-law
GAUDENTIUS QUINTUS FLAVIUS GAUDENTIUS, distant relative, an architect
FLAVIA FLAVIA DOMITILLA, daughter of Cerialis, Vespasian's grand-daughter
JULIA TITI JULIA FLAVIA, daughter of Titus
CAENIS ANTONIA CAENIS, former slave, mistress of Vespasian
PHYLLIS former nurse of Domitian, now nurse to Julia & Flavia
NOTABLE ROMAN CITIZENS
CORBULO GNAEUS DOMITIUS CORBULO, Senator, famed general, now in disgrace
PLAUTIUS LUCIUS AELIUS PLAUTIUS LAMIA AELIANUS, Senator, married to Corbulo's younger daughter
DOMITIA CORBULA Corbulo's elder daughter, now widowed
DOMITIA LONGINA Corbulo's younger daughter, wife of Plautius
VERULANA GRATILLA friend to Corbulo's daughters, wife of Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus
GALBA SERVIUS SULPICIUS GALBA, Senator, Governor of Nearer Hispania, aging general
OTHO MARCUS SALVIUS OTHO, Senator, Governor of Further Hispania, Nero's former friend
VITELLIUS AULUS VITELLIUS, Senator, pleasure-loving would-be general
SEXTILLA widow of Lucius Vitellius, mother of Aulus and Lucius Vitellius
TIGELLINUS OFONIUS TIGELLINUS, Knight, Praetorian Prefect, breeder of racehorses
NYMPHIDIUS GAIUS NYMPHIDIUS SABINUS, Knight, Praetorian Prefect
MUCIANUS GAIUS LICINIUS MUCIANUS, Senator, governor of Syria in late 67 AD
MAMERCUS MAMERCUS CORNELIUS MARTIALUS, retired centurion, leader of Rome's Urban guard
CAECINA AULUS CAECINA ALIENUS, Senator, legionary legate in Hispania and Germania
VALENS FABIUS VALENS, Senator, legionary legate in Germania
PAULINUS GAIUS SUETONIUS PAULINUS, Senator, general who defeated Boudica
ANTONIUS MARCUS ANTONIUS PRIMUS, exiled Senator recalled by Galba
SLAVES & NON-CITIZENS
SYMEON SYMEON BEN JONAH, condemned leader of an outlawed Hebrew sect
SAUL SAUL OF TARSUS, Roman citizen, Symeon's rival, also condemned by Nero
ABIGAIL Judean born Hebrew, Symeon's consort, now a slave
PEREL PETRONELLA Symeon and Abigail's daughter, now a slave
SETH SETH BEN TABI, Symeon's friend, now a slave
MARCUS MARCUS COMINIUS, Italian-born convert to a Hebrew sect, a scribe
LINUS MARCELLINUS JUVENTIUS HERCULANUS, Roman-born convert to a Hebrew sect
SPIROS Greek shepherd boy
JOSEPHUS YOSEF BEN MATITYAHU, captured Judean general-priest-historian
AN APPENDIX AT THE BACK OF THIS NOVEL LISTS THE ORDERING OF THE ROMAN LEGIONS AND THEIR LOCATIONS DURING THIS PERIOD.
Colossus: a person or thing of enormous size, importance, or ability.
This is a colossal story. It arrived like Athena from the brow of Zeus, one massive tale, complete from start to finish. A tale so large, in fact, it proved impossible to fit all into one novel. With that in mind, I just wrote and wrote, then came up for air and looked around to see where I was, what I had.
What I had was enormous, and I was nowhere near finished. So I took that sprawling first novel and broke it into three parts. The first, COLOSSUS: STONE & STEEL, was a more intimate tale, following the Hebrew brothers Judah and Asher through the end of the siege of Jotapata.
Yet there was a separate part of the same story, the story of a mother and daughter, and also of a father and son, that happened even as the twins were facing their trials.
These two tales occur concurrently, interweaving at places. Like Castor and Pollux, COLOSSUS: THE FOUR EMPERORS is S&S's twin brother, born just seconds later.
After this, worlds converge and stay intertwined all the way to the end. For that is the way of clashing cultures once they come together, there is no way to extricate one from the other. They influence each other, leaving neither pure, hopefully strengthening and improving both.
But as with all creation, there must first be destruction. And as with all destruction, while outside forces may be blamed, the true enemy always lies within
HE WILL LIVE ILL WHO DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO DIE WELL.
- SENECA
ROMA, ITALIA
13 OCTOBER 64 AD
Made of Cyclopean stones, the Tullianum was a prison without bars. There was nothing whatsoever to prevent a prisoner from walking out into the open air.
Yet Symeon did not escape. It was a perverse honour to be held in such a place, where for centuries Romans had executed kings, generals, and noble traitors. A mark of respect.
As the breaking dawn illuminated the cell, Symeon began to pace, repeating and polishing newly-memorized phrases until the language was clear in his mind. His friends had often pleaded with him to set the words down, but he had always deferred. There will be time, he'd assured them.
But there was no more time. Fifty-nine years old on the day of his death, and still learning only through mistakes. The story of his life. Always he had to stumble in order to see the path.
One of his guards entered. Guest to see you. By law, Symeon was allowed no light after dark, nor writing instruments. But out of kindness his guards allowed him one visitor. Not his love, nor his child. No, it was a man Symeon had spent much of his life cursing. A fellow Jew called Saul.
Symeon and Saul were a study in opposites. Tall but stooped, Symeon was bald on top with a long white beard, whereas Saul's thinning hair was clipped close, his greying beard nearly squared. Symeon exuded calm, perpetually smiling in the face of sadness. Short, Saul suffered all a short man's failingstemper, arrogance, envy, bombast. And Symeon had never understood the other man's disdain for women.
Yet a man in prison does not sneer at company. Good morrow, my friend.
Saul had no time for pleasantries. I am to be executed! Can you believe it? I am to die today! You as well, he added in after-thought.
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