Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Up Winter series part 11 of 13
The sky is filled with good and bad
That mortals never know.
“- What happened at the Sacred Mountain Reb?”
“The people went there Gus.”
“To do what?”
“Secede.”
“What’s that Johnny?”
“You heard me.”
“Secede though?”
“The plebs -”
“The what?”
“Plebs Gus: they were everyone not patrician.”
“The many.”
“Right.”
“They seceded?”
“The plebs, the many, moved out of Rome to the Sacred Mountain.”
“So the Roman many,” Gus pondered, “their secession wasn’t a violent one?”
“No.”
“They went up the mountain.”
“They did.”
“What did they do there Reb?”
“They waited.”
Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Mons
“For what?”
“Rome had nearby enemies Yank.”
“So the enemies heard of the people moving to the mountain.”
“Right.”
“So the enemies attacked.”
“No."
“What happened?”
“The patricians -”
“The few.”
“- Correct,” continued Reb, “they made a deal to represent the people in the Roman Republic.”
“You don’t say.”
“They did.”
“And this happened because of Virginia?”
“She’s part of the story.”
“And Appius?”
“He meets his.”
Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Nowhere Sacer “Does the Sacred Mountain have a name?”
“Mons Sacer.”
“Mons means mountain?”
“Mount.”
“Like Mount Horeb."
“Yes.”
“And Mount Sinai.”
“Yes again.”
“So it was more like a hill than a mountain.”
“True.”
“And what made it sacred Johnny? …”
*Next Up: The Union 2016 winter series continues tomorrow, Saturday 12 March, with part 12, Down the Sacred Mountain.
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