Susan in NC’s Reviews > A Dying Light in Corduba > Status Update

“The proconsul of Baetica was a typical Vespasian appointee: he looked like a pig farmer. His tanned face and ugly legs would not have counted against him when he was chosen to sit here on an ivory seat between the dusty set of ceremonial rods and axes…Vespasian would have noted his illustrious career… and would also have marked the shrewdness behind the man’s intent hooded eyes.“