alfidius

Updated: June 5, 2025

But the rascality of a business partner had sent the father to the grave bankrupt, the son to the slave-market to satisfy the creditors. And now Alfidius and his myrmidon bound their captive to a furca, a wooden yoke passing down the back of the neck and down each arm.

William Stearns Davis - A Friend of Cæsar : A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. : Time, 50-47 B.C.