Lahat ng Kabanata ng LOVE AND HONOR: The Mad Emperor (BL): Kabanata 41 - Kabanata 42

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