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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Caesar, Gordianus, Gnaeus entitled The Triumph of Caesar?
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conversations.value: The Triumph of Caesar: The year is 46 BC.\nHaving won the civil war, Julius Caesar is now the master of Rome.\nGordianus the Finder and his family return home after their recuperative trip to Egypt, and are given grim news: Gordianus's friend, Hieronymus (whom Gordianus rescued from human sacrifice in Last Seen in Massilia) has been murdered.\nCaesar's wife, Calpurnia, who has become more superstitious and paranoid with each passing day, believes there is a plot to kill her husband.\nIn Gordianus's absence, she hired Hieronymus to investigate, and now his murder seems to lend credence to the threat.\nCalpurnia is frantic, since her information indicates that the prospective assassin plans for Caesar to be dead by the end of his great triumph.\nAs each day of the triumph goes by, Gordianus has no better plan than to follow in Hieronymus's footsteps, interviewing everyone he spoke with in the last days of his life.\nAs he does so, Gordianus becomes conscious of just how many people have reason to want Caesar dead: While all of these people seem to have the motive for plotting against Caesar, few seem to have the inclination (for instance, Antony seems more interested in spending his days in debauchery, and Cicero is slavishly devoted to his new young wife, Publilia) and those that do (such as Vercingetorix and Arsinoe) seem to lack opportunity.\nDuring the triumph, Gordianus and his family happen to be in the crowd when a call by his simple-minded ward, Rupa, to spare Arsinoe's life, is taken up by the crowd, and moves Caesar to grant her pardon.\nNo similar occurrence saves Vercingetorix, who is strangled in the Tullianum.\nThe last day of the triumph arrives, and Gordianus is hopeful that nothing will happen, though he is still nagged by the mystery of Hieronymus's death.\nIn the afternoon, he and his family happen to be attending a ceremony at a temple where Caesar is formally inaugurating his new calendar.\nFor a moment, Gordianus hallucinates that he sees Hieronymus's ghost in front of him, telling him he has arrived at the root of the plot against Caesar.\nSuddenly, Gordianus realizes who the plotter is: Calpurnia's uncle Gnaeus Calpurnius, a descendant of King Numa Pompilius, and the high priest of the deified King's cult.\nKing Numa gave the Roman people the calendar they are using now, and Gnaeus Calpurnius considers Caesar's replacement of it an unforgivable sacrilege.\nJust as he realizes this, Gordianus tackles Gnaeus Calpurnius shortly before he stabs Caesar in the back on the altar.\nCaesar remains oblivious to how close he came to death, and appears annoyed at Gordianus for disrupting the ceremony.\nIn the aftermath of the Triumph, Gnaeus Calpurnius is discreetly abducted and executed.\nWhen Gordianus reports to Calpurnia, he notices that her anxiety and paranoia have not been assuaged by his success at uncovering the plot; if anything, she seems even more convinced that Caesar will be dead before long.\nGordianus, having seen how many enemies Caesar has made in his career, privately redoubles his resolve to distance himself and his family from Caesar as much as possible.
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: \nGordianus, having seen how many enemies Caesar has made in his career, privately redoubles his resolve to distance himself and his family from Caesar as much as possible.\nHaving won the civil war, Julius Caesar is now the master of Rome.\nGordianus the Finder and his family return home after their recuperative trip to Egypt, and are given grim news: Gordianus's friend, Hieronymus (whom Gordianus rescued from human sacrifice in Last Seen in Massilia) has been murdered.\nCaesar's wife, Calpurnia, who has become more superstitious and paranoid with each passing day, believes there is a plot to kill her husband.\nIn Gordianus's absence, she hired Hieronymus to investigate, and now his murder seems to lend credence to the threat.\nCalpurnia is frantic, since her information indicates that the prospective assassin plans for Caesar to be dead by the end of his great triumph.\nAs each day of the triumph goes by, Gordianus has no better plan than to follow in Hieronymus's footsteps, interviewing everyone he spoke with in the last days of his life.\nAs he does so, Gordianus becomes conscious of just how many people have reason to want Caesar dead: While all of these people seem to have the motive for plotting against Caesar, few seem to have the inclination (for instance, Antony seems more interested in spending his days in debauchery, and Cicero is slavishly devoted to his new young wife, Publilia) and those that do (such as Vercingetorix and Arsinoe) seem to lack opportunity.\nDuring the triumph, Gordianus and his family happen to be in the crowd when a call by his simple-minded ward, Rupa, to spare Arsinoe's life, is taken up by the crowd, and moves Caesar to grant her pardon.\nNo similar occurrence saves Vercingetorix, who is strangled in the Tullianum.\nThe last day of the triumph arrives, and Gordianus is hopeful that nothing will happen, though he is still nagged by the mystery of Hieronymus's death.\nIn the afternoon, he and his family happen to be attending a ceremony at a temple where Caesar is formally inaugurating his new calendar.\nFor a moment, Gordianus hallucinates that he sees Hieronymus's ghost in front of him, telling him he has arrived at the root of the plot against Caesar.\nSuddenly, Gordianus realizes who the plotter is: Calpurnia's uncle Gnaeus Calpurnius, a descendant of King Numa Pompilius, and the high priest of the deified King's cult.\nKing Numa gave the Roman people the calendar they are using now, and Gnaeus Calpurnius considers Caesar's replacement of it an unforgivable sacrilege.\nJust as he realizes this, Gordianus tackles Gnaeus Calpurnius shortly before he stabs Caesar in the back on the altar.\nCaesar remains oblivious to how close he came to death, and appears annoyed at Gordianus for disrupting the ceremony.\nIn the aftermath of the Triumph, Gnaeus Calpurnius is discreetly abducted and executed.\nWhen Gordianus reports to Calpurnia, he notices that her anxiety and paranoia have not been assuaged by his success at uncovering the plot; if anything, she seems even more convinced that Caesar will be dead before long.The Triumph of Caesar: The year is 46 BC.