Nerva Note #30

by Gaius Marcellus Nerva

Transcript

Nothing! How can there be nothing? I have searched ceaselessly, and yet I find NOTHING!

I sacrificed my men, my kingdom, everything. I have nothing left to give. Everything I've bled for is gone! For what? For a view?

What trickery is this? What is this place? Am I the victim of some divine joke? I don't understand. I served the Emperor loyally. Why would Janus pull me from his service if not to bring order here?

I've cried out for answers, but the gods never respond. They have abandoned me. All I hear is my own voice, echoing off these cursed halls - betrayed, destitute and alone.

Original text

Nihil! Quo modo nihil erit? Nam ego quidem assidue infirmitatibus constringor, et nihil inveniet te?

Immolabam facta mea hominum regno meo omnia nihil habeo ad te. Ego enim cuncta citus abiit? Quod? Nam per visum?

Quid sit fraus huic? Quid est hoc? Victimam et ego aliquid de iocus divinum? Enim operor non intellego. Et Imperatoris fideliter servivit. Cur non trahere lane de servitio suo ordine producat est nisi hic?

Ego enim exclamavit responsa, sed ne dis respondeo. Dereliquerunt me. Omnes audio vox mea est, haec verba off in maledictione reputabitur halls - prodiderat destituta et sola.