This is enlightening, but I can’t help but look at the boy with the knife. “If I cut it off, will I still have to go? Will they make me? No chance this is worth the denari, the goths will leave me gasping and crawling like Antonius Montana. Gods, I can’t do it, I can’t fucking do it.”
Detailing woodwork, maybe, or carving a message into a whitewashed board? Roman legionaries doubled as specialists who would do many of the ‘normal’ work around camp/the fort, including specialist carpenters.
(they volunteered for that kind of position because it got them out of guard duty and standard labor details digging ditches)
This is enlightening, but I can’t help but look at the boy with the knife. “If I cut it off, will I still have to go? Will they make me? No chance this is worth the denari, the goths will leave me gasping and crawling like Antonius Montana. Gods, I can’t do it, I can’t fucking do it.”
I was wondering about that dude a well.
Maybe he’s practicing that finger stabby game Bishop does with Hudson in Aliens
Detailing woodwork, maybe, or carving a message into a whitewashed board? Roman legionaries doubled as specialists who would do many of the ‘normal’ work around camp/the fort, including specialist carpenters.
(they volunteered for that kind of position because it got them out of guard duty and standard labor details digging ditches)
I’ve got it! He’s cutting the foam lining for a helmet :-D