Dalmatica

But everyone just calls her Dalmatica, I was told.

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“It is,” agreed Dalmatica, whose brown beauty was softer than Aurelia remembered, and whose grey eyes were much sadder.

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In her own rooms Dalmatica found herself with an hysterical girl on her hands and a huge burden of anger to deal with.

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Whereupon Scaurus, now close to sixty years of age, promptly married his son's fiancée, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Metellus Numidicus's older brother; she was known as Dalmatica.

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“Then we'll have to hope that Pompeia finds a very nice husband,” said Dalmatica, and looked at Aurelia in a more serious way.

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For though his heart hoped and acknowledged a premonitory joy, there was anger in him because of this joyless task he still must finish, and fear in him that it might be Dalmatica to die.

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What happened next did nothing to help heal the breach between Sulla and Dalmatica; Pompey came to see the Dictator the following morning, as directed.

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Dalmatica, who had a boy and a girl by her first husband, Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, as well as the twins, was preoccupied with her eldest, Aemilia Scaura.

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Carefully escorted by Chrysogonus-and very carefully avoided by those in the audience who recognized them-Dalmatica and Cornelia Sulla joined the Dictator and Mamercus just as Metrobius, still in armor, finally arrived before Sulla.

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There was a smell of corruption in the big airy room where Dalmatica lay, reinforced the closer a visitor came to the bed.

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