Chapter 15
The Governor’s WifeNot long after this the Governor’s wife, the Lady Domitilla, came from Camulodunum to Aquae Sulis to consult the Oracle. She found an apparently peaceful, sleepy town nestling in a hollow between hills. As she stood on the smooth flagstones of the precinct before the Temple of Sulis Minerva, she could almost feel herself in Rome — the tall columns, the pediments, the steps — the feeling of order and control. In the open air there was a great altar, carved with Roman Gods at each corner. She sighed. It might look like Rome, but it was not Rome. She missed her Roman friends and family. She missed the sunshine and the cypress trees. She missed the hubbub of great events surrounding the Emperor. She found the indigenous people of Britain so difficult to get to kn
