Marcus et Scytala Caesaris

Marcus has lost something valuable containing a secret message that once belonged to Julius Caesar. Even worse, it was passed down to Marcus’ father for safekeeping, and he doesn’t know it’s missing!

As Marcus and his friend, Soeris, search Alexandria for clues of its whereabouts, hieroglyphs keep appearing magically. Yet, are they to help, or to hinder? Can Marcus decipher the hieroglyphs with Soeris’ help, and find Caesar’s secret message?

Marcus et Scytala Caesaris is written with 20 cognates and 30 other Latin words (excluding different forms of the same word, names, and meaning established within the text), and is over 1400 words in length.

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