`` I shall know them again , Cæsar , '' said Rutilianus . `` Very good , '' said Maximus . `` Now hear ! You are not to move man or shield on the Wall except as these boys shall tell you . You will do nothing , except eat , without their permission . They are the head and arms . You are the belly ! '' ' `` As Cæsar pleases , '' the old man grunted . `` If my pay and profits are not cut , you may make my Ancestors ' Oracle my master . Rome has been ! Rome has been ! '' Then he turned on his side to sleep . ' `` He has it , '' said Maximus . `` We will get to what I need . '' ` He unrolled full copies of the number of men and supplies on the Wall -- down to the sick that very day in Hunno Hospital . Oh , but I groaned when his pen marked off detachment after detachment of our best -- of our least worthless men ! He took two towers of our Scythians , two of our North British auxiliaries , two Numidian cohorts , the Dacians all , and half the Belgians . It was like an eagle pecking a carcass . ' `` And now , how many catapults have you ? '' He turned up a new list , but Pertinax laid his open hand there . '
`` No , XXXXX , '' said he .
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