Venus Preserved by Tanith Lee

Author:Tanith Lee [Lee, Tanith]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781468306217
Publisher: Overlook TP
Published: 2005-04-26T06:00:00+00:00

SHE REMEMBERED THAT TIME, seeing him as she waited in one of the two-horse chariots, by Talio’s yard. She, and others, Julus’s prizes, dressed in their well-to-do actors’ garments, had been put on display in the town. Now their master had business with his plebian rival, Talio.

Phaetho fought there in the dust, near the training post, with a thickset man.

In Rome there had been black Ethiopians, and some were free men. The Emperor Narmo had inaugurated among the legions several cohorts of such soldiers. But in Stagna Maris black men and women were rare. This fighter was finely made, powerful and glorious in the dust that clouded but did not conceal him. His long hair, coarse black and thick as a horse tail, was tied up on his head. As no gladiator should, when in combat, he had no look of a slave.

Jula had noted her master’s evaluating eye settle on Phaetho.

But Talio, himself a one-eyed villain (others said) would hardly be parted from such a specimen, just as Julus refused to part with the specimen he called Jula.

One day, maybe, they might be matched, Phaetho and she.

But she had not considered that then. She had seen only a man who was, as she was, a possession. And presently, because she did not think much about those who were not immediate to her, she forgot him.

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