Marcus is so surprised because when Marcus first meets Bella, he is taken aback by the depth of her bond with Edward.
The main character of The Eagle of the Ninth was a Roman named Marcus Flavius Aquila who lived in the early second century CE. He established the Flavius family line in Britain and found the Ninth Legion's missing Eagle standard and dolphin ring.
Marcus Flavius Aquila, a 19-year-old Pilus Prior in the Fourth Gaulish Auxiliaries in Isca Dumnoniorum, was a member of the Second Augustan Legion. The orphaned son of the senior centurion of the Ninth Legion, Etrurian by birth, of equestrian rank, and of a military family (1). The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff has endured despite being first published in 1954. A Roman legion actually did suddenly vanish, and the story, which is set in Roman Britain around Hadrian's Wall, has a certain allure.
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