Chapter 56

“It is I, glorious Caesar,” replied the officer, who had come to arrest the abductors of Favonia. “Does it happen that you are one of the detachments sent out by Fulvus Fupus to search for Mallius Lepus and the barbarian, von Harben?” “We are here, Caesar,” cried Mallius Lepus, while Favonia, von Harben and Gabula followed behind him. “May the gods be praised!” exclaimed Cassius Hasta, as he embraced his old friend. “But where is the barbarian chieftain from Germania, whose fame has reached even to Castra Sanguinar…