"Have I turned from the fucking visible?" "I rose only as favor to Attius." "Much deserved for his efforts." "We have searched villa twice upon length to result of empty hands." "Search of horreum gives like result." "Let us send word to Heracleo and return him to the fucking sea." " I would not be so quick." " I am with Agron in this." "I do not care for the look in the Cilicians eye." "Yet he has what we do not." "Ships." "Ships that can carry grain and supplies even when route upon land is blocked by Crassus." "And how do we strike bargain, absent what he seeks?" "What of Nemetes?" "Have you broken word?" "He has not laid eyes upon the seal." "Despite picking bones of city clean in search of errant coin." "We waste effort." "There's no one among us we can divine word as being secreted." "Then I shall entreat oracle of loftier standing."