Chapter 1

In the late afternoon a Roman sailor - together with several slaves - visited the harbour of Ossonaba, with a letter from the governor of Lusitania. The message was meant for Johnathan (His citizenship name is Lazirius Juanus), a Hebrew nobleman, who migrated during the rulership of Augustus. He has two vineyards and has bussiness contracts with other local farmers.

The letter states:
''Greetings to Marcus,
We received complains from the local authorities concerning exploitation and abuse of Roman citizens in your companies. We desire that you'll appear within two days at the court in Augusta Meritus to give an account of your economic activities from past four years. If you do not give heed to this requirement, sanctions will be taken on you and your land. Your betrayel to Rome can be sentenced with death.''

Johnathan decided to flee to Hibernia, because of the lack of Roman influence in the area. He has friends in Eblana, who he taught, would receive him. That same evening he fled without his household knowing it. The next morning the servants and slaves were confused.

Two Spanish employers decided to leave. They were aware of the ilegal practises of their former employer and the tensions that existed between him and the local noblemen. They believed that the letter was due to lawsuits that the rich in Ossonaba and Cacela filled against him. Further, some slaves decided to flee....

At the same time, a cousin of Johnathan arrived in the harbour. His name is Rashidus, a latinization of an Arab name. His parents live in Olisipo, which is at the end of the Tegus river, at the Atlantic Ocean. He sailed on his own, as he often does, to visit his uncle. At arrival he met the two Spanish guys and they informed him.

''Let's go into the house!'' he commands ''We have something to take care off''.

Inside, he searched for the money that's left behind. He found enough to pay off all the workers and he gave every slave 25 Dinarii told them to leave immidiately and to not come back again. He also found the letters addressed to him by the governor, with the treath of capital punishment.

He leaves the next day and he sails to Brigantium, in which he remains for two days, afterwards he sails on to Portus Itius, which is near the Imperial border with Germany. The sailing took him two days, due to bad weather. In Gallia, he pays a chariot to transport him to Augusta Vindelicorum, the Capital of Rhaetia.

The journey to Rhaetia took him four days and sixteen hours. He commanded the chariot to stop 10 miles before their arrival at the city. He, then, crossed the Donau-river moved on. He had some maps of Germany with him. He decided to head on for the country named Boiohaemum (Bohemia), which is claimed to be the homeland of the Boii-tribe.




Augusta Vindelicorum - Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.
Brigantium - A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
Boiohaemum - Bohemia, or present day Czech republic.
Eblana - Dublin, Ireland. (it was a Greek economic settlement, which later became the capital of de jure Roman Province Hibernia), even though an actual de facto Roman rule never became reality. 
Hibernia - Ireland (Northern Ireland included).
Lusitania - Portugal and Spanish Extremadura.
Ossonaba - Faro, Algarve, Portugal.
Olisipo (Felicitas Julia Olisipo) - Lissabon, Portugal.
Portus Itius - An ancient city in Nord-Pas de Calais, France.

Rhaetia - A Roman province near the Upper Rhine rivers, which today exists of parts of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Italy.



Tegus - Tejo river.

Note: Hebrews were despiced during the first century AD. Due to their refusal to attend the yearly religious celebration to worship the Emperor. Besides that, they were called Iudaeorum (''Jews'') instead of 'Hebraicae' (Hebrews). ''Jew'' was a swear word for the Hebrew comminity which were black people, similar to the ancient Egyptians! It was, despite this, in usage in daily life, due to the fact that ancient Greek become the lingua franca of the ancient world.