He searched for the agora, but could not spot it, nor a basilica. In fact, to his surprise, the main roads were oddly laid out in a sort of alpha shape with the market in the middle, not the usual grid system one found in civitates or coloniae. Then again, Lindinis was just a market town and had no official status. The odd layout was, Lucius decided, due to its former existence as a native oppidum. All that was missing were the round houses.
Smoke rising into the air along the north wall told him where the baths were, and then he spotted the ring of hired guards around a two-storey building in the south-east quadrant. The curia.
Lucius walked along the paved road to where it intersected with another that ran directly in front of the squat, rectangular, limestone building. He approached t
