![]() Justin and Flavius see Allectus in the shop of Serapion, a perfume seller, whose insinuations that Allectus favours more lenient taxes than Carausius Allectus does not deny.įlavius takes Justin to visit their family farm on the South Downs, where he shares his theory that the grant of land from the Senate generations ago had something to do with the vanished Ninth Legion and an unexplained adventure in Caledonia (2). ![]() Justin is introduced to Carausius and to his Finance Minister Allectus, to whom he takes a dislike (1). On arriving at the Saxon Shore fort of Rutupiae, he encounters Flavius, a junior centurion, and they quickly discover that they are distant cousins. ![]() Justin, a young Roman Army surgeon who has just finished his apprenticeship, is assigned to the Second Legion in Britannia, a province whose breakaway native emperor Carausius has only just been brought back into the imperial fold by the western emperors Maximian and Constantius. ![]()
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