Word: brundisium
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...
Through Misery Street. 'At Brundisium, slaves raised Poet Virgil's gilded litter to their shoulders, marched off toward Augustus' palace. The road led through the slum of Misery Street...
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