ROME, ITALIA 15 JANUARY 69 AD
A new year in Rome, with a new Caesar. As usual, the rising sun summoned the more august senators to join the Princeps inside the Temple of Apollo for the daily taking of auspices.
Among them was Sabinus, this year"s praetor urbanus, the city"s chief judge. He was feeling justifiably self-satisfied. Just fifteen days into his term of office and already he was being spoken of favourably – he had the courts hopping, dispensing with civil cases by the bucket-load. After years of hard work, he was finally beginning to build a reputation. Titus Flavius Sabinus Junior was a man who got things done!
Tertius and Clemens stood a few dutiful paces back, in the company of Domitian. Sabinus feared that he would soon find the lad arraigned in one of his courts. The figh
