13 TALES OF INDALUS CHAPTER 8A

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 TALES OF INDALUS 
CHAPTER 8A


Where are we now? Rho inquired 

Still in the sea of Vhindia but we will arrive in Baghdadpossibly by tomorrow said Aaliah

Burp...  its a good dinner said Rho
How abouT you Rho?  Ali asked Rho



kRULL the name of Rho when he was still a barbarian galli in Gaul near Spain
what about me? said Rho.




GALLI  the ancient barbbarians  in the romanprovince of Celtica
what about me? asked Rho
I think you should have a name before you become a roman citizen..  said Ali
How did you become a roman soldier
I notice you have a good placements of subjects to talk with   
You can ask Garsila more about me

Hmnnn...  I told you before he was a servant of our granfather Ptolemy 

He was the librarian before Ibecome the librarian of Queen Cleopatra

He was the librarian of PtolemyIt was {tolemy who dictated him the annals of Alexander the great thats why he knows very well

His name as the servant of Ptolemy  was  Scheherazade   from the Persian name  Shahrya we pronounced it as sharvah dont know his name when he retired from the library when queen cleopatra too over as pharaoh after Ptolemy 

I was employed as a merchant forthe court of Queen Cleopatra SAID aLI

I live in Baghdad fo a long time as a business man so i adopted the name Ali Colia  Ali said...


One day a platoon ofthe Roman army came in our village for the recruitment to serve the roman army ... they said if you aerve in the roman armya good pay is IS WAITING   and a land will be part of the privileges  so I jointhe army in exchange for the land  so that my family and my cousinsscan live peacefully...if we dont have a land duly recognized  by the roman government war is always expected,  the roman government is always collecting tributeand higher taxes  the barbarians hate high taxes. If i join the roman army  the land ll be recognized by the government  and the taxes will be affordable

I remember my name was Krull when I was still  a barbarian galli somewhere in Gaul  I remember I was so happy in my life living wih my family
My family has a big clan

We were aways at war against the roman army 


Emperor Nerva


Emperor Trajan

Emperor Hadrian of Rome


Emperor Marcus Aurelius of Roman Empire

Five notablegood Roman  sovereigns, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius RULED the Roman empire during this period (A.D. 96-150). What Nerva was has just been described; and he made no mistake in adopting Trajan as his successor. Trajan, unconnected by origin, as Nerva also had been, with old Rome, was born in Spain, near Seville, and by military service in the East had made his first steps towards fortune and renown. He was essentially a soldier—a moral and a modest soldier; a friend to justice and inthe public aswell; grand in what he undertook for the empire he governed; simple and modest on his own score; respectful towards the civil authority and the laws; untiring and equitable in the work of provincial administration; without any philosophical system or pretensions; full of energy and boldness, honesty and good sense. He stoutly defended the empire against the Germans on the banks of the Danube, won for it the province of Dacia, and, being more taken up with the East than the West, made many Asiatic conquests, of which his successor, Hadrian, lost no time in abandoning, wisely no doubt, a portion. Hadrian, adopted by Trajan, and a Spaniard too, was intellectually superior and morally very inferior to him. He was full of ambition, vanity, invention, and restlessness; he was sceptical in thought and cynical in manners; and he was overflowing with political, philosophical, and literary views and pretensions. He passed the twenty-one years of his reign chiefly in travelling about the empire, in Asia, Africa, Greece, Spain, Gaul, and Great Britain, opening roads, raising ramparts and monuments, founding schools of learning and museums, and encouraging among the provinces, as well as at Rome, the march of administration, legislation, and intellect, more for his own pleasure and his own glorification than in the interest of his country and of society. At the close of this active career, when he was ill and felt that he was dying, he did the best deed of his life. He had proved, in the discharge of high offices, the calm and clear-sighted wisdom of Titus Antoninus, a Gaul, whose family came originally from Nimes; he had seen him one day coming to the senate and respectfully supporting the tottering steps of his aged father (or father-in-law, according to Aurelius Victor); and he adopted him as his successor. Antoninus Pius, as a civilian, was just what Trajan had been as a warrior—moral and modest; just and frugal; attentive to the public weal; gentle towards individuals; full of respect for laws and rights; scrupulous in justifying his deeds before the senate and making them known to the populations by carefully posted edicts; and more anxious to do no wrong or harm to anybody than to gain lustre from brilliant or popular deeds. “He surpasses all men in goodness,” said his contemporaries, and he conferred on the empire the best of gifts, for he gave it Marcus Aurelius a roman general.