Day 33 - Precious Things

"What are you reading?" he asked.

"Cleopatra's Daughter," I said, not looking up from my book.

He threw himself onto the bed next to me.  "Can I read to you?"

I laughed, "If you must."

He started reading and got stuck on a word.  "Vi..Vit..Vi...is this even English?"

"A lot of it is Latin, actually, but that shouldn't matter since so much of the English language is based on Latin."

He gave me a puzzled look, "What the hell is that," he asked, pointing out another word.

"Campus Martius.  The Field of Mars."

"Well what the hell is it?"

"It's an area that used to be just outside the walls of Rome."

"So?"

"Well it really doesn't have much importance until probably around the end of this book."

"What's it about anyway?"

I laughed, "You know, Marc Antony, Cleopatra, Selene and Alexander, Octavian who later becomes Augustus, Agrippa, Marcellus...You know, Roman history."

"Carry on," he said rather officially.

I read another 100+ pages before finally deciding that if I really wanted to be productive the next day, I'd better put the book down.