Collegium, Brotherhood of Rogues

Caesar’s position is far from secure, with enemies in the Senate plotting against him and renegade legionaries still loyal to Antonius fermenting rebellion, among them, the renegade legate of the Third Aegyptus, Titus Eximius, who, sworn to topple the young tyrant, escapes from Egypt and turns to the Barbarians of Moesia to raise a Celtic army to invade Italy, financed by a vast treasure hidden by Marcus Antonius years ago. Titus has no idea that Caesar’s legions are secretly poised to conquer Moesia to secure the empire’s frontiers along the mighty Danube.
Meanwhile, in Rome, an insidious group of senators and political enemies led by Fannius Caepio are plotting Caesar’s assassination, but they know they’re powerless without military assistance, and so, an alliance is made between the plotters and the Antonians, who are set on rekindling the bloody civil war.
Sabinus, the ennobled blood son of the infamous and villainous Grassator (gangster) First Centurion of the Fifth Macedonica, Nepos Maximo the Bastard of the Aventine. Sabinus is also the adopted son of the patrician adventurer Draco Cerialis, one of Caesar’s best spies and commander of the “Irregulars,” a small band of elite Speculators.
When Draco Cerialis is killed in an ambush by Titus’s men, Sabinus vows vengeance.
Meanwhile, the Greek and Macedonian legions invade Moesia, and Sabinus with his half Irregulars pursues Titus into war-torn Moesia, where Sabinus becomes the reluctant commander of two cohorts of regular troops, battling their way through a formidable enemy to rendezvous with the Fifth Macedonica.
King Budorix of the Triballi has amassed a massive army of barbarian allies and intends to stop the Romans and drive them back to Macedonia and the two armies come face to face in an epic and violent battle, upon which hangs the success or failure of the conquest and Sabinus’s prize, Titus Eximius…
Now Octavian must consolidate and secure his position in Rome, where he still has many enemies, enemies who are deep in plot and treachery. Now the long years of civil war are over, Octavian turns his attention to conquest, and a plan to expand the empire to the banks of the Danubius, and so begins the bloody and violent conquest of Moesia.
Never has Rome had such a rogue as Nepos Maximo the Bastard of the Aventine, Primus Pilus (first centurion) of the V Macedonica. He is the most powerful villain in Rome. Nor has Rome had a more experienced and loyal soldier – except maybe his son…
Sabinus Maximo Cerialis is a ambitious young officer, the adopted son of the patrician Draco Cerialis and the blood son of the infamous Bastard of the Aventine. After his adopted father is murdered in an ambush by the renegade legate, Titus Eximius Sabinus embarks upon a bloody mission in pursuit of vengeance...