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Julius Caesar, as we realize, found its way to Gaul (now France) and announced "I Came up, I Saw, I Conquered." But when Decius Metellus happens from Rome, not seeking armed service glory but rather avoiding an adversary currently in power, he detects that although the general came and observed, up to now, at least, he has definately not conquered. The campaign seems at a standstill. Decius' appearance disappoints the great Caesar as well. He has been waiting for guaranteed reinforcements from Rome, an influx of military to restart his invasion. Instead he's offered one young man ridiculously decked out in armed service parade finery and short on armed service skills, supported not by keen troops but by one callow and reluctant slave, the feckless Hermes. It soon builds up, however, that Decius' appearance was fortuitous. When Vinius, the army's cruelest centurion (so-called because he commands 100 military), is available murdered, Caesar remembers that his new recruit has effectively come up with the culprit in several recent offences. Murder is harmful to morale, particularly since it appears quite clear that the murderer was one of Caesar's men. Caesar requests Decius to get the killer - and quickly. Although information tips to the kid of one of Decius' clients - a children who was this focus on of the centurion's brutality - Decius racks his brain to find a way to save him from the sentence of death. The investigation leads Decius to two German slaves of the dead man - a dwarfish old man and a lovely woman. These are puzzling; the man is arrogant, the girl haughty - very unlike slaves. There are unanswered questions. It soon becomes clear to Decius that only by finding and punishing the true murderer might it be possible to quiet the growing dissatisfaction with Caesar's unorthodox method of warfare and forestall a mutiny from the mighty Caesar's authority and aims.
