Certain names begin to crop up now of import. Names that have come down to us through history partially through the efforts of Mr Shakespeare. Cassius. Brutus. Galba. Casca. Trebonius. The end times are coming, and things are beginning to change. And with my, I think, less than flattering portrayal of Cleopatra, I hope you feel, like me, that there is a little something of the Yoko Ono effect with Cleopatra and Caesar. He may have had his enemies before Alexandria, but that particular woman’s influence (even if accidentally) seems to trigger the slide from Caesar’s high point into that dreadful chasm that ends it all on the steps of Pompey’s theatre.
For now, I’ll leave it here. The civil war is finally almost over. A few of Caesar’s detractors continue to defy him in the west, and that tale will come next.
Fronto will be back next year, leading the war in Africa.
Veni, Vidi, Scripsi
Simon Turney, June 2019
Table of Contents
Marius’ Mules XII
Also by S. J. A. Turney:
Preface
The maps of Marius’ Mules 12
Chapter One
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty One
Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Twenty Three
Chapter Twenty Five
Chapter Twenty Six
Chapter Twenty Seven
Epilogue
Historical Note