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Another Damascus resident, who asked to be anonymous, told the BBC: "For the very first time, there is a true feeling of freedom."

"The freedom of democracy is crumbling because of just one man. It's killing me," lamented an office worker who attended the protest.

This sets Lucius on his path back to Rome, following his wife's murderer intent on vengeance but then finding the goal of greater freedom for Rome more compelling along the way.

Last week it was the freedom of a modest run chase, on Saturday with the cushion of a 155-run first-innings lead.

The freedoms afforded by democracy have not just led to a thriving civil society.