"Philipart Cynther, our glorious magister militum, is grateful for your services as cónsul in the skirmishes against the tribes. For which reason he has appointed him general under the command of the praefectus of Chiro, Salustio Luperco, who is already awaiting his arrival with his legions."
End of the first month of 576
Port Anky, Dominated of Asians
Aulo watched with a cold gaze, standing on the main quay of the port, as the nearly fifty ships that made up the entire fleet of Chiro, and in which traveled the legio that Luperco was forced to cede to him, were stuck at the moorings.