EPILOGUE

EPILOGUE

Calpurnia gave birth to a baby-boy on an undated day, possibly between that year’s Saturnalia and Anna Perenna’s feast .She sent that son of hers to Gades so that he should be brought up there, far from Antonius and Octavius’ interests. Once grown up, he returned to Rome. His wisdom, intense eerie appeal.... and those eyes in which transparent blue could become silvery drove him to seduce Julia, Augustus’ own daughter, who included him among her favourite lovers. They had a daughter who, thanks to her mother’s insistence, was fostered by would-be Emperor Tiberius. When she became an adult woman, she unpredictably fell in love with a common plebeian eques, who, thanks to his privileged marriage, had the chance of becoming the Governor of Judea. Like her grandmother almost eighty years before, this noble matron, whose name was Claudia Procula, did not succeed in convincing her husband, Pontius Pilatus, of the seriousness of the prophetic dream that she had had the night before and in which misfortune would be unlashed all over Judea and the whole world due to an honest man who had been sentenced to death...

FINIS

                    Gades, Ante Diem XIV Kalendas October MMDCCLVIII a.u.c.