Dearest Pompey,

I belie the enclosed man belongs to you.

A quick note to tell you I have decided to winter the 13th Legion closer to home, at Ravenna.

So I shall soon have the pleasure of paying you homage in Person.

You wanna get high?

The campaign in the northeast of Persia turned into a hard guerrilla war of almost three years. We chased Darius towards Bactria but missed taking him by hours. The Great King Darius had been betrayed by his own commanders. Fully honouring his corpse, Alexander hunted down these commanders into unknown lands, crossing even beyond the River Oxus into Sogdia. We fought them as far as the unknown steppes of Scythia where only legendary heroes had once trod. The surveyors told us we were now on the borders of where Europe and Asia meet, in fact, we were totally lost. Here, Alexander founded his 10th Alexandria and settled it with veterans, their women and any who would dare the frontier life.

We have worked the self-same gun, quarterdeck division.
Sponger I and loader you, through the whole commission.
Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're safe ashore, Jack.
Don't forget yer old shipmate, faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe!

He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He's hackin' and wackin' and smackin'
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat

Glorious news! At Actium, In Greece, the navy of our Imperator Octavian Caesar, under the command of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa has won a decisive victory over Queen Cleopatra and her slave Mark Antony. The Egyptian fleet has been destroyed. Even now Octavian Caesar advances on Alexandria where the witch and her creature take refuge.