Excerpt from The Victory of the Vanquished: A Story of the First Century
It was the eve of the Triumph of Germanicus. The Roman camp on the hills above the Campagna was hushed in sleep. A tall fair woman - one of the German captives who were to grace the triumph - had crept to the door of one of the tents, and was gazing with eyes dreamily fixed on the long reach of Roman Road which stretched before her into the darkness.
To her, as to us, that road was a great symbol. It was no mere pliant highway of commerce, in gracious windings accommodating itself to the needs of men and the difficulties of nature.
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