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Saint Horus And The Dragon

and she explains, as he would expect, that his endeavour against the Senate will fail.

but then he expects that the Republic will still restore anyway after all this as it always has. and she explains no, how it will fall quickly to Cæsar (not a Syllan, but a young Marian, as Sertory had rightly feared) and then to the worse, Syllan Cæsar and never return, forever subjugated in servility to a man, such that poets must call a vicious man a god.

and he's troubled by this but then he expects that at least the cults of the gods will still stand. and she explains no, that ex templo Saturni fracto (fracto by that same little Pyrrhus who even now is running against Sertory, incidentally) will come the darkness that silences & destroys the Romans' religion.

and he's really troubled by this but he expects that at least Cæsar's empire will be limited, that the Scythians & Indians & Garamantes &c. will still remember the gods. and she explains no not really, that even after all Rome herself is destroyed the darkness will continue its path to envelop the whole globe of the Earth. and, incidentally, it will be the very Romano-Iberian people that Sertory has been founding in righteousness that will do the great part of this work; she prophesies the Spanish Empire and catalogues all the unknown peoples with unknowable names that Sertory's sons will destroy, in the unattainable antipodes, across the uncrossable Ocean.