In the following days, the bodies of the estate workers, the villa servants and the managers were buried in the fields near the villa, the fires were put out and what possessions that could be salvaged were salvaged. Germanus and Lupus were much helped by the return of some of the governor’s Armorican Guard from the eastern front – would that they had been at home when the attack on the villa had taken place - and the arrival of General Aetius’s legions – fewer than were ideally needed, but more than Germanus dared hope would come. Aetius would always help his old comrade if he could.  Thank Jupiter that they had turned up, thought Lupus, given the losses that the western Roman armies had suffered along the Rhenus, it would have been understandable if Aetius had said that no men at a...

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