Othello the Legatus Act 1 Scene 1 Part 4.1

Act One Scene 1 Part 4

Emperor Commodus was standing by the Victory Altar, while his eyes laid on the assembly of Senate members which he called to join him there. They are some of his trusted ones that he would consult on matter of concern like the one they had all debated on that evening.

"They can't be more than a handful. Are you sure the scouts are right?" One senator spoke out while another replied in disgust.

"You are saying that our finest had speculated on their numbers. They are not fresh girls chasing the boys in the square." That senator replied. "Unlike yourself , that you do not know who you met last week lest alone knew their names."

"Gilvius, If Envius knew who he fathered, he would had not left the villa. He would be shadowed by every corner and street." One other added to the zest of the senator's personal life.

"Senators, do we know what is happening?" Emperor Commodus told off his senate members.

"They could be creating alliances, or calling on their loose tribe members." The senator who first spoke sobered up to the discussion.

"Tell me something that I am not informed on." Emperor Commodus told the assembled. The trusted circle looked away from the Emperor and continue their muttering among themselves. The Emperor was to shout when he saw the Centurion that walked in.

The Centurion approached the Emperor before he bowed.

"I bring grave news. The tribes are seen moving south to the Iberia Peninsula." The scout showed the Emperor the migration of the tribes.

"The Iberia? Hispania? Why there? Why not march to Brittany or Dacia? There are more their kind there." Commodus asked. "Hispania is ours too...."

"A province of Rome, my Emperor." Senator Envius advised the Emperor.

"They are confusing us. They want us to go to Iberia. To divert our Legions." Senator Gilvius, the passionate one added in his experience to the new information. "They have nothing to gain there. Its a peninsula, when they have the whole continent here to gather their mens."

Senator Gilvius point to the upper lands.

"Its their land." He was reprimanded by his Emperor.

"Its ours now. Please stand corrected, Senator. Its does not look good to your status to mis-quote." Commodus frowned and then looked to the doorway.

"Where is the Legatus I summoned?" It was coincidental that the Praetorian Prefect arrived with the Legatus he was seeking.

"Ha! The man I been waiting have arrived." Emperor Commodus stepped away from the altar and approached the Legatus who had stepped in. The legionnaire bowed to his Emperor and took his place beside the Emperor. The other lead him by the arm to the long table where the map of the land was laid out.

"Othello, I have the revolt in Britain. But I have the one need of you in the coastline of Gaul." Emperor Commodus point to the line that ran from north to the south. "These barbarians are plotting something but I know not of what. I want you there to quell them if they are up no good. Rome would not tolerate any dis-loyalty."

Othello looked at the map and noted the stretch that he was visit. He was to speak when the senator walked in. Brabatio walked in alone and was unarmed. He bowed to the Emperor and then approached the later.

"Senator Brabatio, I am surprised to see you here." Emperor Commodus looked to his Prefect for that intrusion. The other looked away but the Senator had covered for the Prefect.

"My Emperor, please do not put the fault on the Prefect; he was not to know that I am forceful in my ways and had trespassed on matters of urgency." Brabatio explained himself. He looked at the Legatus.

"He is the reason I seek your judgment." Brabatio point to the Legatus. "An officer of the Rome finest who had shamed the Aquila he hold before his legions."