Erase the Tablet: The Letter-Book of Antonia Caenis https://pbmills.com Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/erase-the-tablet ERASE THE TABLET is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the letter-book and late dictation of Antonia Caenis, freedwoman and secretary, who really lived, who really was kept by the emperor Vespasian in the place of an almost lawful wife, and whose freedman really did set up a stone to her. The documents do not exist. Everything else here is invention. Nineteen episodes, read by two voices. The second book of the sequence that began with AUGUSTA: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com. © P.B. Mills Publishing cbc6a723-849a-5dd3-9f53-83987a617a1d yes en Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:00:31 -0600 Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:03:12 -0600 https://img.transistorcdn.com/20cEnWRcjLC1L12-dkNua2BR4ZPXxRsD6acXMzFkk0M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYjhl/OWJhN2VmNjAzMDQ2/YzhiMzljMTliMmU2/ZTdiZi5wbmc.jpg Erase the Tablet: The Letter-Book of Antonia Caenis https://pbmills.com serial P.B. Mills ERASE THE TABLET is a novel by P.B. Mills, read in full. It is presented as the letter-book and late dictation of Antonia Caenis, freedwoman and secretary, who really lived, who really was kept by the emperor Vespasian in the place of an almost lawful wife, and whose freedman really did set up a stone to her. The documents do not exist. Everything else here is invention. Nineteen episodes, read by two voices. The second book of the sequence that began with AUGUSTA: The Lost Commentaries of Julia Agrippina. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com. ERASE THE TABLET is a novel by P.B. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book P.B. Mills hello@pbmills.com No No I. Best of Patrons 1 1 I. Best of Patrons full d2838698-9456-4814-bc32-84f4eaac949d https://share.transistor.fm/s/d56e78f2 There is a piece of stone in Rome with a mistake on it: six lines for Antonia Caenis, freedwoman of Antonia Augusta, best of patrons, put up by her freedman Aglaus with his children. The translator sets out the four things that are actually known about her, the legal oddity that follows from the third of them, the three layers the book is made of, and why a technical detail about ink is the only place this book and the other one touch.


Front matter of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> There is a piece of stone in Rome with a mistake on it: six lines for Antonia Caenis, freedwoman of Antonia Augusta, best of patrons, put up by her freedman Aglaus with his children. The translator sets out the four things that are actually known about her, the legal oddity that follows from the third of them, the three layers the book is made of, and why a technical detail about ink is the only place this book and the other one touch.


Front matter of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:27:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 471 The translator on a stone in Rome with a mistake on it, and on the woman it names twice, once below somebody and once above. The translator on a stone in Rome with a mistake on it, and on the woman it names twice, once below somebody and once above. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No II. Erase the Tablet 2 2 II. Erase the Tablet full e90b3630-e93d-4a91-9c3e-47184177da5b https://share.transistor.fm/s/4c280a2e The first surviving leaf of the letter-book: Antonia Minor, sixty-seven, to Tiberius Caesar, about eleven letters between her daughter and the man who commands his guard. Four drafts, a courier called Pallas, and the instruction that gives the book its name. Forty-two years later, in a small upper room on the Quirinal, Caenis begins to dictate, and is told to begin with the letter and not with herself. Then the eleven weeks after the fall, a daughter in a locked room, and what the kitchen returns of the house record about how long she was fed.


Chapters One and Two of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> The first surviving leaf of the letter-book: Antonia Minor, sixty-seven, to Tiberius Caesar, about eleven letters between her daughter and the man who commands his guard. Four drafts, a courier called Pallas, and the instruction that gives the book its name. Forty-two years later, in a small upper room on the Quirinal, Caenis begins to dictate, and is told to begin with the letter and not with herself. Then the eleven weeks after the fall, a daughter in a locked room, and what the kitchen returns of the house record about how long she was fed.


Chapters One and Two of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 2253 October AD 31. A letter to Tiberius is dictated four times in a night, sent, and erased from the wax in front of a door slave who cannot read. October AD 31. A letter to Tiberius is dictated four times in a night, sent, and erased from the wax in front of a door slave who cannot read. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No III. A Question of Wording 3 3 III. A Question of Wording full 9ce88b03-5d82-4ec2-89b7-03e3aea0e9db https://share.transistor.fm/s/ef4fb447 December AD 31: what the register says about the three children of Apicata, and a conversation in a corridor with a man called Eucaerus. Aglaus counts the private leaves by month and does not raise what he finds. April AD 32: a letter in which the wording matters, and Caenis, at sixty-five, gives the verb and stands by it. A Kalends list with a name added at the foot, and four drafts of one afternoon in AD 33, with Agrippina the Elder on the other side of the table.


Chapters Three and Four of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> December AD 31: what the register says about the three children of Apicata, and a conversation in a corridor with a man called Eucaerus. Aglaus counts the private leaves by month and does not raise what he finds. April AD 32: a letter in which the wording matters, and Caenis, at sixty-five, gives the verb and stands by it. A Kalends list with a name added at the foot, and four drafts of one afternoon in AD 33, with Agrippina the Elder on the other side of the table.


Chapters Three and Four of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1977 The dispatch register, a corridor outside the writing room, and a verb that Caenis is still certain of forty years on. The dispatch register, a corridor outside the writing room, and a verb that Caenis is still certain of forty years on. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No IV. The Price of a Person 4 4 IV. The Price of a Person full bf8347ca-c957-4dcd-a733-fa78172d3f50 https://share.transistor.fm/s/79b8240f Spring AD 34: Caenis is sent to a yard to buy someone, and records what a person costs. The strongroom of the house until it is too dark to read, and the first leaf of a second, private book, ten lines in one ink. Then AD 37, three weeks after the accession: Antonia Minor, seventy-two, receives her grandson Gaius in the small reception room, and five of the fourteen letters that followed are given in the order they stand. Aglaus on a gap of sixty-one days in a run of twenty-eight years.


Chapters Five and Six of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Spring AD 34: Caenis is sent to a yard to buy someone, and records what a person costs. The strongroom of the house until it is too dark to read, and the first leaf of a second, private book, ten lines in one ink. Then AD 37, three weeks after the accession: Antonia Minor, seventy-two, receives her grandson Gaius in the small reception room, and five of the fourteen letters that followed are given in the order they stand. Aglaus on a gap of sixty-one days in a run of twenty-eight years.


Chapters Five and Six of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 28 Sep 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1858 A yard on the Vicus Patricius, the earliest bill of sale in the archive, and what it costs to buy a person. Then the old woman and the boy. A yard on the Vicus Patricius, the earliest bill of sale in the archive, and what it costs to buy a person. Then the old woman and the boy. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No V. Nine Days in May 5 5 V. Nine Days in May full 3d567283-9ed8-43f5-8521-4e39f0f00946 https://share.transistor.fm/s/48e79296 May AD 37. Eleven days blank in a book whose longest other gap in forty years is four. The bedroom on the garden side at the eighth hour of the Kalends, and three things in Caenis's account of it that cannot be true, which Aglaus sets against what can be established. The testament of Antonia Minor, made in AD 26 and unaltered, is read in the hall with eleven standing and Caenis at the back. Then the Vicus Longus, a street, a clerk of the praetor's office, and seven months of learning what a freedwoman may and may not do.


Chapters Seven and Eight of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> May AD 37. Eleven days blank in a book whose longest other gap in forty years is four. The bedroom on the garden side at the eighth hour of the Kalends, and three things in Caenis's account of it that cannot be true, which Aglaus sets against what can be established. The testament of Antonia Minor, made in AD 26 and unaltered, is read in the hall with eleven standing and Caenis at the back. Then the Vicus Longus, a street, a clerk of the praetor's office, and seven months of learning what a freedwoman may and may not do.


Chapters Seven and Eight of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1986 Eleven days with nothing in them. The death of Antonia Minor, the will opened in the hall, and four clauses that make a secretary a freedwoman. Eleven days with nothing in them. The death of Antonia Minor, the will opened in the hall, and four clauses that make a secretary a freedwoman. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No VI. Aedile of the Streets 6 6 VI. Aedile of the Streets full 78e6ac85-ac55-4a45-b4bd-58f32594800a https://share.transistor.fm/s/29793ecd Autumn AD 37. Caenis, four months free, with her rates on a card at the top of the stair, takes on a client called Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who is standing for aedile and needs letters. Sixth of six, barely, and a recount on one tribe. The Forum in the aedileship of AD 38, about the fifth hour, at nine paces. An hour and a quarter in her rooms the same afternoon: the Tarracina letter, a lease, and a letter of four lines. Then the only two letters in the archive from her to anybody before AD 51, the marriage to Flavia Domitilla, and what his entries in the working register show for the four years on either side of it.


Chapters Nine and Ten of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Autumn AD 37. Caenis, four months free, with her rates on a card at the top of the stair, takes on a client called Titus Flavius Vespasianus, who is standing for aedile and needs letters. Sixth of six, barely, and a recount on one tribe. The Forum in the aedileship of AD 38, about the fifth hour, at nine paces. An hour and a quarter in her rooms the same afternoon: the Tarracina letter, a lease, and a letter of four lines. Then the only two letters in the archive from her to anybody before AD 51, the marriage to Flavia Domitilla, and what his entries in the working register show for the four years on either side of it.


Chapters Nine and Ten of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 2059 Two rooms on the Vicus Longus, forty-one canvassing letters, and a man with mud on him at the corner by the Basilica. Two rooms on the Vicus Longus, forty-one canvassing letters, and a man with mud on him at the corner by the Basilica. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No VII. Narcissus 7 7 VII. Narcissus full 390a06ba-24b0-45ff-a4df-fbfd523670cd https://share.transistor.fm/s/4b8bede6 Spring AD 41. Eleven rooms, thirty-four hands, and Caenis taken in for three months to copy. A petition out of Bithynia about a market, and a sheet that was never meant to be seen, of which she copied the first eighteen lines and the foot. The tally handed in at the door on the last day, and one question. Winter AD 42: nine names on one sheet ruled by a clerk called Doryphorus, four dots in the margin, and the Second Legion. Eleven words from Narcissus in a corridor, and about nine pounds of paper in a cloth.


Chapters Eleven and Twelve of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Spring AD 41. Eleven rooms, thirty-four hands, and Caenis taken in for three months to copy. A petition out of Bithynia about a market, and a sheet that was never meant to be seen, of which she copied the first eighteen lines and the foot. The tally handed in at the door on the last day, and one question. Winter AD 42: nine names on one sheet ruled by a clerk called Doryphorus, four dots in the margin, and the Second Legion. Eleven words from Narcissus in a corridor, and about nine pounds of paper in a cloth.


Chapters Eleven and Twelve of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1728 Three months as a pair of hands in the correspondence of the emperor, a sheet out of a press behind the table, and how four legions are given commanders. Three months as a pair of hands in the correspondence of the emperor, a sheet out of a press behind the table, and how four legions are given commanders. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No VIII. The Other Side of the Wall 8 8 VIII. The Other Side of the Wall full 12e47c38-fce1-40cf-ada6-bbc413d739bf https://share.transistor.fm/s/8e31ca8b The working register, letters counted by month: thirty before, sixty-seven after, and nine weeks between. Spring AD 44 on the Vicus Longus, with Agrippina at twenty-eight on the other side of a wall. Four hundred of her sentences through other people's hands, three of them given and one corrected. Then AD 46, a procurator from Tarraco, three letters on three consecutive mornings about the mines of Asturica, and the fifth leaf of the private book: two hundred thousand in, fifty-three thousand four hundred out, and a valuation. Aglaus on the ruling, the letter forms and the abbreviations.


Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> The working register, letters counted by month: thirty before, sixty-seven after, and nine weeks between. Spring AD 44 on the Vicus Longus, with Agrippina at twenty-eight on the other side of a wall. Four hundred of her sentences through other people's hands, three of them given and one corrected. Then AD 46, a procurator from Tarraco, three letters on three consecutive mornings about the mines of Asturica, and the fifth leaf of the private book: two hundred thousand in, fifty-three thousand four hundred out, and a valuation. Aglaus on the ruling, the letter forms and the abbreviations.


Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1543 Two houses in the same quarter for eighteen years and no near miss. Julia Agrippina, read off the page by somebody who never met her. Then two hundred thousand. Two houses in the same quarter for eighteen years and no near miss. Julia Agrippina, read off the page by somebody who never met her. Then two hundred thousand. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No IX. What Pallas Knows 9 9 IX. What Pallas Knows full 13cb89de-4027-401a-b8cf-13ec5b0ba181 https://share.transistor.fm/s/564d35b7 AD 47: Pallas, at the second room of a house on the Esquiline, and the four occasions across fifteen years on which she was certain he would ask. Four days in January AD 48 and the method by which she decided what a silence was worth, given in the voice she uses for arithmetic. A standing line in the private book, ruled in before each year's other entries for twenty-seven years. Then the third hour of a day in October AD 48, a freedman of Lucius Vettius at her door, a second caller at the seventh hour, and two copies of the same letter in her hand made four hours apart, set one under the other.


Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> AD 47: Pallas, at the second room of a house on the Esquiline, and the four occasions across fifteen years on which she was certain he would ask. Four days in January AD 48 and the method by which she decided what a silence was worth, given in the voice she uses for arithmetic. A standing line in the private book, ruled in before each year's other entries for twenty-seven years. Then the third hour of a day in October AD 48, a freedman of Lucius Vettius at her door, a second caller at the seventh hour, and two copies of the same letter in her hand made four hours apart, set one under the other.


Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1609 A house on the Esquiline, the fish account, and how to arrive at what to pay a man who has asked for nothing. Then October AD 48, and the question of copies. A house on the Esquiline, the fish account, and how to arrive at what to pay a man who has asked for nothing. Then October AD 48, and the question of copies. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No X. Two Women Who Do the Same Work 10 10 X. Two Women Who Do the Same Work full efcedf83-c294-4edc-b49a-ba1c34b6faca https://share.transistor.fm/s/bd9f4fa7 AD 49: Caenis and Sostrata, both forty-one, in the anteroom of Verus, tabularius, on the Argiletum, and a conversation about ink. The only place in either book where the two women are in the same room. Then the ninth hour of the third day before the Ides of October AD 54, a doorway on the Vicus Longus, and a night in the presses: fourteen things touching Narcissus, four touching Burrus, six touching Seneca, and two at the bottom. The largest entry in the private book by a factor of four, and three words added in the margin four years and seven months later.


Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> AD 49: Caenis and Sostrata, both forty-one, in the anteroom of Verus, tabularius, on the Argiletum, and a conversation about ink. The only place in either book where the two women are in the same room. Then the ninth hour of the third day before the Ides of October AD 54, a doorway on the Vicus Longus, and a night in the presses: fourteen things touching Narcissus, four touching Burrus, six touching Seneca, and two at the bottom. The largest entry in the private book by a factor of four, and three words added in the margin four years and seven months later.


Chapters Seventeen and Eighteen of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1601 The anteroom of a records office on the Argiletum, AD 49, and two women of forty-one who do the same work. Then the year of the mushrooms. The anteroom of a records office on the Argiletum, AD 49, and two women of forty-one who do the same work. Then the year of the mushrooms. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XI. A Woman of Property 11 11 XI. A Woman of Property full db34934c-c0d2-4e7a-8a7b-39f7927cd16c https://share.transistor.fm/s/8cdd41f8 The annual summaries for AD 55, 56 and 57, ruled at the foot of each year, of which the fourth head is not money. AD 56: Caenis leaves the Vicus Longus for a house on the Alta Semita with a door rehung to open outward. An October morning in AD 57 with Sostrata, from the second hour to about the sixth. Then March AD 59: the account of Agrippina's death as it was circulated, her copy of it complete, and what she wrote at the foot of the same sheet in the same sitting. Three sentences, given on the twentieth afternoon.


Chapters Nineteen and Twenty of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> The annual summaries for AD 55, 56 and 57, ruled at the foot of each year, of which the fourth head is not money. AD 56: Caenis leaves the Vicus Longus for a house on the Alta Semita with a door rehung to open outward. An October morning in AD 57 with Sostrata, from the second hour to about the sixth. Then March AD 59: the account of Agrippina's death as it was circulated, her copy of it complete, and what she wrote at the foot of the same sheet in the same sitting. Three sentences, given on the twentieth afternoon.


Chapters Nineteen and Twenty of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1528 Nine rooms on the Alta Semita after nineteen years on the Vicus Longus, an index of twelve thousand four hundred pieces, and the sea at Misenum. Nine rooms on the Alta Semita after nineteen years on the Vicus Longus, an index of twelve thousand four hundred pieces, and the sea at Misenum. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XII. The Claim 12 12 XII. The Claim full 00792d3d-1927-4691-8490-e8e0887d6c6f https://share.transistor.fm/s/2c60003b Summer AD 60: a procurator of the imperial estate, a claim against her, and the hand she recognised on the third day, belonging to a freedwoman called Musa. The longest passage of the dictation, on four documents she chose not to use. The settlement of October AD 61, nine hundred thousand between five people. Then June AD 63, a builder called Sabinus in a yard on the Alta Semita, Vespasian back from Africa on the Nones of July, and four things said. Aglaus on the working register from AD 37 to AD 63, which he has been through twice.


Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Summer AD 60: a procurator of the imperial estate, a claim against her, and the hand she recognised on the third day, belonging to a freedwoman called Musa. The longest passage of the dictation, on four documents she chose not to use. The settlement of October AD 61, nine hundred thousand between five people. Then June AD 63, a builder called Sabinus in a yard on the Alta Semita, Vespasian back from Africa on the Nones of July, and four things said. Aglaus on the working register from AD 37 to AD 63, which he has been through twice.


Chapters Twenty-One and Twenty-Two of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1836 A summons from the fisc, a pleading of fourteen leaves, four documents in the ninth room that would end the case before noon, and what each would cost. Then Domitilla. A summons from the fisc, a pleading of fourteen leaves, four documents in the ninth room that would end the case before noon, and what each would cost. Then Domitilla. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XIII. The Fire 13 13 XIII. The Fire full 2053af2b-c1aa-4239-8ed3-ae7b4e5bea85 https://share.transistor.fm/s/4a3153b0 The fire of Rome as it reached the Alta Semita, and what a woman of fifty-six with an archive does while the city burns. The second hour of the morning with a rake: four thousand one hundred and six pieces in, about two thousand one hundred out. Then nine days at a table, from the second hour to the fourth hour of the night: eleven houses, the frame, the quarrels, and the arithmetic that told her when to stop. A short episode, on purpose.


Chapter Twenty-Three of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> The fire of Rome as it reached the Alta Semita, and what a woman of fifty-six with an archive does while the city burns. The second hour of the morning with a rake: four thousand one hundred and six pieces in, about two thousand one hundred out. Then nine days at a table, from the second hour to the fourth hour of the night: eleven houses, the frame, the quarrels, and the arithmetic that told her when to stop. A short episode, on purpose.


Chapter Twenty-Three of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0500 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 970 July AD 64. Six days, then three more, fourteen regions, and a store at the back of the yard gone through with a rake. July AD 64. Six days, then three more, fourteen regions, and a store at the back of the yard gone through with a rake. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XIV. He Went to Sleep 14 14 XIV. He Went to Sleep full a78e099b-0a35-48c7-8379-4c8dbe2dff84 https://share.transistor.fm/s/4f23d9c3 Vespasian, fifty-seven, in disgrace four hundred miles away, and how a man in disgrace is actually killed, set out as a procedure with eleven men of the fourth rank. A separate account in the private book, October AD 66 to August AD 67, with its own head and running total, which she did nowhere else in forty years. One evening in August AD 67, three reasons, and six lines drafted in a quarter of an hour. Then the ninth room, from before dark until a lamp was brought: eleven extracts from letters written for nine different houses, set in date order, and the only thing she was ever frightened of that she did herself.


Chapters Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Vespasian, fifty-seven, in disgrace four hundred miles away, and how a man in disgrace is actually killed, set out as a procedure with eleven men of the fourth rank. A separate account in the private book, October AD 66 to August AD 67, with its own head and running total, which she did nowhere else in forty years. One evening in August AD 67, three reasons, and six lines drafted in a quarter of an hour. Then the ninth room, from before dark until a lamp was brought: eleven extracts from letters written for nine different houses, set in date order, and the only thing she was ever frightened of that she did herself.


Chapters Twenty-Four and Twenty-Five of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:00:00 -0600 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1713 A theatre in Greece, autumn AD 66. Four letters, none first-hand, about a man who fell asleep while the emperor sang. Then Judaea. A theatre in Greece, autumn AD 66. Four letters, none first-hand, about a man who fell asleep while the emperor sang. Then Judaea. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XV. July 15 15 XV. July full 6c98961e-08fd-4dbb-82ee-7de5aef3569e https://share.transistor.fm/s/bfc84382 AD 69, headed by the month and not by the consuls, there being no use in the consuls that year. Six holdings, eleven standing arrangements, four continued, four stopped, three changed, the reason in a clause. June: one million nine hundred and forty thousand in three parts, one question asked. Then her copy of a letter from an agent at Puteoli, the fourteenth day before the Kalends of August, about an exchange rate, and a foot-note of two hundred and eleven words in a book where her foot-notes average nine. The end of the twenty-sixth afternoon, in four sentences.


Chapters Twenty-Six and Twenty-Seven of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> AD 69, headed by the month and not by the consuls, there being no use in the consuls that year. Six holdings, eleven standing arrangements, four continued, four stopped, three changed, the reason in a clause. June: one million nine hundred and forty thousand in three parts, one question asked. Then her copy of a letter from an agent at Puteoli, the fourteenth day before the Kalends of August, about an exchange rate, and a foot-note of two hundred and eleven words in a book where her foot-notes average nine. The end of the twenty-sixth afternoon, in four sentences.


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]]> Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:00:00 -0600 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1171 The year of four emperors, kept as accounts. Seven hundred thousand east through a banker at Puteoli, entered as a hedge. The year of four emperors, kept as accounts. Seven hundred thousand east through a banker at Puteoli, entered as a hedge. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No XVI. Almost a Lawful Wife 16 16 XVI. Almost a Lawful Wife full 27a6ef5b-269c-4f9b-a4ee-e2326e0802dd https://share.transistor.fm/s/447c78c8 Nine entries on a draft leaf of the household register, fourth quarter AD 70, with three strikings on the ninth. The clerk Fronto, his columns, and how long it took her. Aglaus counts the first four months of the reign against the ordinary rate of twenty-two years. A chancery letter about the African grain, one clause, and a foot-note of six words. Then Chapter Twenty-Nine, which is four lines long: an arrival from Histria, twenty-two days on the road, the middle hall, and what Domitianus Caesar did.


Chapters Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Nine entries on a draft leaf of the household register, fourth quarter AD 70, with three strikings on the ninth. The clerk Fronto, his columns, and how long it took her. Aglaus counts the first four months of the reign against the ordinary rate of twenty-two years. A chancery letter about the African grain, one clause, and a foot-note of six words. Then Chapter Twenty-Nine, which is four lines long: an arrival from Histria, twenty-two days on the road, the middle hall, and what Domitianus Caesar did.


Chapters Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine of the letter-book. The novel is free to read at pbmills.com/books/erase-the-tablet


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]]> Mon, 09 Nov 2026 06:00:00 -0600 P.B. Mills P.B. Mills 1069 The household register of Caesar's Quirinal house, AD 70, and a clerk called Fronto. Then four lines in the register of arrivals, and a hand. The household register of Caesar's Quirinal house, AD 70, and a clerk called Fronto. Then four lines in the register of arrivals, and a hand. Antonia Caenis, Vespasian, ancient Rome, Roman history, Flavian, Domitian, freedwoman, historical fiction, audiobook, audio drama, Roman Empire, classics, Agrippina, letter-book No