Rain tambourined on the stately square.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

The r-stems had apparently been reduced to the five nuclear kinship terms that still survive in Modern English.

It was marked as seconds, but I can't find anything wrong with it.