All Comments on 'Slave to the Romans Pt. 01'

Nice work. Quite detailed

Cretus is Latin for separate. We find it in English words including concrete (cement with separate stones) and discretion (keeping knowledge separate). The soldiers called him that because he was apart from his family (whom they had probably killed.) Sextus means six. It was a Roman habit to name the fifth child onwards just by numbers, hence Quintus, Sextus, Septimus, Octavius. Anwen is Welsh, and means very pretty. Nubia was strictly a region of Southern Egypt and North Sudan, but often misapplied by Romans to any dark person. Now you know why classical male statues have small genitals!