Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave, " he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service...my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail. Rosemary Sutcliff
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The Papyrus of Ani is a short poem in which the goddess Isis speaks to her son Horus. The poem is an example of the genre of Instruction. The poem instructs Horus on how to defeat Set, a god who was believed to be a murderer and a kidnapper. In the poem, Isis tells her son that he must recite a spell to defeat Set, and that this spell is written on a papyrus roll.

The word 'papyrus' is also known as 'paper'. This quote shows that Esca uses slang from his native tongue when speaking with Marcus.

Source: The Eagle Of The Ninth

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