Wait For Me

In Rome, military service was both duty and a currency.For plebians, it was survival—or a ladder out of obscurity.For the nobility, it was performance: a rite, a stage, proof that their bloodlines still bled for the Roman Republic, now the Roman Empire. Sons of gentes, consuls and senators were expected to serve, often beginning as tribuni militum (military tribunes) posted to the fringes of the known world to earn their scars and their stories.And the plebians? They started as a foot soldiers or miles gregarius.A Roman legion was its own city of war—five to six thousand men, split into cohorts and centuries. At the top stood the legatus legionis, a senator by rank, an emperor's man by appointment.Below him: six tribunes, drawn from both noble and equestrian stock; the praefectus castrorum, a hardened veteran who ran the camp like a machine.And the centurions—grizzled, brutal, relentless—who ruled their men with iron fists and vine staffs.But not all soldiers marched under th

Last Updated : 2025-05-06

The Lion Started Baring His Claws

Lepidus sat alone in the villa's hortus now.There was a white marble bench beside him but he chose to sit on the earth.'Old habits die hard,' he thought bitterly.A warm breeze still lingered from the day.The late afternoon sun should have been hot, but it wasn't.He didn't feel it, too occupied to care.He was half-watching the olive trees sway in the breeze.The familiar marble lion fountain gurgled behind him, but even its sound felt ghostly, like a whisper from another life.Then came the memory, not of Caligula this time—but of Marcus.The night before Lepidus was sent off, wearing military garb that didn't quite fit yet.He heard a whistle, two tones.It was their implicit signal when calling each other.It caught Lepidus off guard.He stopped moving.He was packing the few remaining clean tunics he had.He had never told Marcus and Lucius where he lived or anything about his lineage, even though they had been friends for so long.So Lepidus was quite shocked when he heard th

Last Updated : 2025-05-11

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Wait For Me

The Lion Started Baring His Claws