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Detectives in Togas
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Detectives in Togas (in Germany known as Caius, der Lausbub aus dem alten Rom - Caius the brat from Ancient Rome) is a 1953 children's book by Henry Winterfeld, who was born in Germany but emigrated to America. It's about the Ancient Rome adventures of seven preteen boys (all of them sons of senators) who visit (and constitute) the prestigious school of the old Greek teacher Xanthos.The novel had two sequels: Mystery of the Roman Ransom (1969) and Caius in a Tight spot (1976).Compare The Roman Mysteries, a later series with a similar premise but a more diverse cast. | |
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Dying Clue | |
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Dying Clue: After Xanthos reveals where the gold is, it suddenly makes much more sense: "It's behind bars." | |
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Troubling Unchildhood Behavior: When Antonius visits a party of Tellus to spy there, he gets pretty drunk. Or acts like this, at least. Note: He's just eleven. | |
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Slave Liberation | |
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Slave Liberation: At the end of book two, Xanthos buys Udo's freedom. Although senator Vinicius also offers to do this. It's not stated who exactly buys Udo's freedom at the end, and since he doesn't appear in book three, we'll never know. | |
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Lovable Coward | |
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Lovable Coward: Flavius | |
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Bald of Evil | |
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Bald of Evil: The Big Bad of the first book again. | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy | |
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Brilliant, but Lazy: After Antonius brags about his great memory, Xanthos wonders why he never knows his lections in school. Caius knows the answer: "Because he never looks at them." | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: The baker where the boys like to buy their snacks. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: At the end of book two, Caius is not above thanking the (not anymore) slave Udo for saving his family. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: In book three, the last opportunity to convince the emperor to set Caius free will be at the chariot race, because the emperor will leave for Capri where he may stay for months. (As RL Tiberius often did.) | |
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Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List | |
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Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List: In the first book, the boys write a letter to the emperor to explain that Rufus is innocent. Because they have nothing else to write on, they use the backside of a pergament with Cicero's speech against Catilina on it. When Xanthos wants to read the letter, this trope happens. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: When Rufus writes down the offending words, Xanthos kicks him out from the school - forever. This sets off the plot - Rufus goes to Lukos, thinking he was a real sorceror, to make Xanthos forget to tell Rufus' parents that he's kicked out. Subverted in that Xanthos reveals he never intended to follow through; he was simply trying to scare Rufus. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: The Big Bads of part 1 and 2. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Book Dumb: Caius. Leading to many funny situations when he can't answer the questions of his teacher. Like this: "The Rhine is a river... which has banks on both sides." | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: The Big Bad of the first book. At least when he appears as Tellus. | |
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The Leader | |
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The Leader: Mucius | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: Caius' is dead, so his sister has to care for the household instead. | |
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Hot-Blooded | |
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Hot-Blooded: Caius. Which is the reason he often gets in trouble. | |
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Gladiator Games | |
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Gladiator Games: Gladiators play a role in book 2. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Icarus, a wheelcart driver in book 3. He dares too much during a race, and, guess what, falls. | |
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Covered in Gunge | |
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Covered in Gunge: Antonius saves his friends from a gladiator in the second book by putting a big bucket of honey over his head. | |
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Grammar Nazi | |
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Grammar Nazi: In the German original, Xanthos corrects a student on the use of "anscheinend" (seems to be and could be) and "scheinbar" (seems to be but isn't), nowadays a common cause for complaints. Creates Fridge Logic when you wonder which words they were talking about in Latin. | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper | |
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Cheaters Never Prosper: Icarus uses his whip to pull Ben Gor (who's slightly ahead) off his chariot. But Ben's horses are so well-trained that they keep on running the right way - and since the chariot is lighter without Ben, they can run even faster. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: It rarely happens that Xanthippus is laughing, about once per book. The first time he does this, the boys can barely believe this. | |
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Out-of-Character Alert | |
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And in book three, Claudia sends them a letter which sounds suspicious because she doesn't seem to care for the death of her brother. On the letter are three doodles - two triangles next to each other, a goat's head, and a circle with some lines around it. The triangles stand for a pyramid, the goat for milk - most Romans drank goat milk - and the circle for the sun, or heat in general. Claudia was hinting at an Egyptian technique for hiding messages by writing them in goat's milk, so the letters become invisible, but reappear once you heat the pergament. Antonius helps to come to the conclusion when he states that it's like a riddle of the sphinx. | |
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Stern Teacher | |
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Stern Teacher: Xanthos, nicknamed Xanthippos. But even if he scolds the boys permanently, he's still on their side, always. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: In the third book, because of a misunderstanding the secret police thinks that Caius wanted to assassinate the emperor, so he gets condemned to death. Fortunately Ben Gor could save Caius - but the emperor insists he'll have to win the race first. | |
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Spy Speak | |
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Spy Speak: In the first book, the boy Rufus is in prison and about to be executed, but manages to send a strange message to the others: "Rip off the red wolf's sheep's clothing!" He's talking about the "seer" Lukos (Greek for "wolf"), whose name is written in red on his house, who's the Big Bad and framed Rufus. Lukos is really the ex-consul Tellus, who wears a wig when playing Lukos. Also a letter in book two: "Go to the Viminalis [Hill]. Opposite of the statue of Niobe is the villa where Cicero lived. Usipetes." And in book three, Claudia sends them a letter which sounds suspicious because she doesn't seem to care for the death of her brother. On the letter are three doodles - two triangles next to each other, a goat's head, and a circle with some lines around it. The triangles stand for a pyramid, the goat for milk - most Romans drank goat milk - and the circle for the sun, or heat in general. Claudia was hinting at an Egyptian technique for hiding messages by writing them in goat's milk, so the letters become invisible, but reappear once you heat the pergament. Antonius helps to come to the conclusion when he states that it's like a riddle of the sphinx. | |
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AlternateCalendar | |
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Alternate Calendar: Rome counted years from its foundation in 753 BC, Greece from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC. That's why the boys think Xanthos was fifty, when he's really seventy-two. | |
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The Professor | |
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The Professor: Teacher Xanthos, who saves the day twice - in the second book, he discovers where the disappeared gold has to be. It's in the false bottom of the cage of a bear. The hint: Said bear in his cage had to be lifted by way more legionnaires than necessary - the hidden gold explained the difference in weight. And in book three, he manages to find out the secret codeword for the Circus Maximus, despite the fact that Caius was thoroughly confused and couldn't remember whether it was the name of "a woman who won a horrible battle" or "a man who almost drowned". It's Pyrrhus (Pyrrha respectively), as in Pyrrhic Victory - Caius had confused the sexes. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: During the first book, the man at the Baths of Diana tells Mucius that he can't have boys jumping in from the rooftops, because he drains the pool and one will eventually break his neck. Guess what happens to the villain. | |
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ChekhovsLecture | |
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Chekhov's Lecture: At the beginning of the first book, the boys have to learn Greek vocables. Quite boring for them, and probably for the reader too. So it's easy to miss the one that matters later: "ho lukos" - the wolf. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
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Obfuscating Disability: Udo pretends to be a mute, so the bad guys will underestimate him. He only speaks when the boys discuss handing him over to the police - because Rome's police commander is one of the bad guys. - This is also the reason why the boys have enough money to buy him, as a present for Xanthos' birthday. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: After the boys can't get tickets for the big chariot race, Caius promises he will get them. He doesn't state why he needs a mule and a rope-ladder for this. He stands on the back of the mule and throws the ladder over the wall of the emperor's palace. | |
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The Film of the Book | |
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The Film of the Book: Made in Germany, and supposed to come Real Soon Now. | |
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Fauxreigner | |
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Fauxreigner: Lukos' shtick. After all, everyone expects that true magic comes from faraway places. | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors | |
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Good Colors, Evil Colors: Ben Gor has four white horses, Icarus four black ones. | |
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Depraved Dwarf | |
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Depraved Dwarf: The gladiator Minimos in book 2. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Book 3 has Ben Gor from Galilee. | |
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"Eureka!" Moment | |
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"Eureka!" Moment: Caius of all people solves the secret of the letter in book two (see Spy Speak). Take the first two letters of the names, and you'll get Vinicius - Caius' family name. Which means that the bad guys want to kill his father. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The emperor is mentioned several times, but never by name. From the dates given in the story, we can conclude it's Tiberius, second Roman emperor. | |
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Red Herring: In the second book, the slave Udo tells them he was at a certain place where he heard sounds of swords clashing and someone shouting constantly "Ave imperator, morituri te salutant!" The boys look for one gladiator school and don't find it. And then they stumble upon a blacksmith forging swords with a parrot constantly shouting that phrase and know: Udo was here. The villain of the first book breaks in at Xanthos' home and steals a few scrolls - and the wax tablet of Rufus, on which he wrote "Caius is a dumbbell". Which he uses to put this sentence in Rufus' handwriting on the temple wall. | |
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Sympathetic Slave Owner: The main characters are preteen sons of Ancient Roman senators with household slaves, whom they're generally pleasant towards. They also buy their teacher a slave as a birthday present in the second book, but end up working with him to solve a mystery and ultimately grant him freedom in thanks. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Xanthos and the fathers of Caius and Rufus. | |
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Jerkass: Publius and sometimes Caius | |
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No Infantile Amnesia: When they need someone with a good memory, Antonius claims he can remember the time when he was a baby, laid in his cradle and was bored, and could say nothing but "papa" and "mama". Xanthippos states that he can remember his babyhood as well - and the students can barely imagine he ever was a baby. | |
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Faking the Dead: Caius in book three. And Claudia's cat Mopsa. (They had to test the supposedly deadly poison.) | |
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