De Vita Auli Aurelii - A Romani AAR

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Chapter 5: Fat Man's Burial (micro chapter)
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I felt like I had spend too little attention to the death of Cnaeus the Fat.

Aulus fled towards the sea, ran from the silver Makedonian shields, he took the first ship to Roma and arrived there 2 days later, like Ulysses, sleeping on his back. He was just in time for the burial of Cnaeus the Fat...

The cremation was just outside the city, in a theatre...
All guests were sitting on the stairs of the senate, crying an weeping for their recent loss, some were happy as well thanks to the great amount of cash they inherited from him.

Anyways, the priests were walking towards his HUGE body which needed an XXL wooden pile to burn him on, they had to chop an entire forest in Gallia Cisalpina!

The priest approached with the torches, and his wife cryed like her life depended upon it, and our Aulus was told a joke by his neighbour:

"Psss... Aulus, y'know...when Cnaeus was in town, Roma had eight hills!"

And just on the moment Cnaeus body was set alight, Aulus laughed his ass off, all guest were staring at him, and poor Aulus couldn't stop laughing.

All the guests then came running after him with rakes and Aulus had to run towards the ship.
An old lady almost stabbed him with a rake, but he got just in time on the ship, and then he sailed to Illyria again.