“He stands at his horse's head, watching the prisoner line with tired, experienced eyes. He says nothing. He waits.”
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Titus Aufidius Scaeva was born in the Samnite hills, a people who had once fought Rome and lost. His father was a farmer, his mother a weaver, and he grew up with a memory of the old times — the times when his people were free. He enlisted in the Roman legions when he was eighteen, driven by a need to prove himself and a hunger for something more than a farmer's life. He fought in the Spartacus campaign, a brutal, grinding war that tested him to his limits. At the Silarus River in 71 BC, his horse went down in the chaos of battle. He was pinned, helpless, watching the enemy approach. He was twenty-three years old. He was certain he was going to die. Then the Primus Pilus rode through the smo…
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