XXI
THE GODS LOVE YOU
The three days after the performance blurred into one riotous, extended victory celebration, perhaps greater than any had by a returning general of Rome.
Invitations to one party after another for the entire company were delivered constantly by smiling servants grateful for a glimpse of the players about whom everyone was speaking.
The aedile, Sextus Annius Sabinus, was thrilled to play host to The Etrurian Players and his new business partner, Felix Modestus, for they were a lively bunch of the sort that brightened his and his wife, Martia Annia’s, hearts. The future did indeed look wondrous for their partnerships, for ever since the day following that grand performance at the end of the Ludi Apollinares, invitations for the company to perform had been flooding i
