Аннотация
Lindsey Davis
SATURNALIA
Extracts from the Hippocratic Oath I swear by Apollo the healer I will use my power to help the sick to the best of my ability and judgement; I will abstain from harming or wronging any man by it. I will not cut, even for the stone, but I will leave such procedures to the practitioners of that craft. Whenever I go into a house, I will go to help the sick and never with the intention of doing harm or injury
ROME: DECEMBER AD76
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If there was one thing you could say for my father, he never beat his wife.
'He hit her!' Pa was spluttering; he was so eager to tell my wife Helena that her brother was guilty of domestic violence. 'He came right out and admitted it: Camillus Justinus struck Claudia Rufina!'
'I bet he told you that in confidence too,' I snapped. 'So you come bursting in here only five minutes later and tell us!' Justinus must have gone for a bribe to reinstate himself Once Pa had sold the culprit an exorbitan...
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