your day (you will automatically hand him the necklace you won).
Your efforts
will be rewarded, because you will follow Popidius to a reception
at the house of
Octavius Quartio, where you will again encounter Sophia.

After the feast is over in the house of Octavius Quartio, he will
suggest a
poetry contest. Sophia will respond to your first stanza. Choose
whatever reply
you like. Your hosts invite you to enter the garden, and your
first day comes to
an end.



Second Day: 21 August 79 AD

You again meet Popidius, who is preparing to worship the Lares. He
will signal
you not to interrupt him. Leave the house by way of the lower
atrium. Shortly
after you go out, you encounter Fructus, the city▓s mad prophet.
He suggests that
you go stand before the Temple of Isis. Then he disappears. Turn
left, then left
again, into the street of the Temple of Isis. A public slave
pursuing Fructus
asks you if you know what direction he took. Answer ⌠no.■ Go to
the end of the
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