![]() A beauty he had never been, never would be. His hair was getting a bit thin on top, but he still had enough dark brown curls to brush forward into a respectable coiffure. ![]() Nothing to be ashamed of about his physique! No matter how ostensibly inert his days might be, he got in a fair amount of exercise, worked with the dumbbells and the closhes, swam if he could several times across the Tiber in the reach called the Trigarium, then ran all the way back from the far perimeter of the Campus Martius to his house on the flanks of the Capitoline Arx. ![]() Carlos Alcaraz becomes second man ever to. The reader is swept into the whirlpool of pageantry, passion, splendor, chaos and earth-shattering upheaval that was ancient Rome. The 26-year-old Croat is fresh off reaching the first Masters 1000. The central characters in The First Man in Rome are Gaius Marius, a country squire from Arpinum, and Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an impoverished blue-blooded Roman aristocrat. Mind you, at forty-seven he was still a fine figure of a man. The First Man in Rome Colleen McCullough 4.12 22,148 ratings1,105 reviews From the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds comes a masterpiece of historical fiction that is fascinating, moving, and gloriously heroic. Many men in Marius's position would have lain back in the bath water and demanded that they be scrubbed, scraped, and massaged by slaves, but Gaius Marius preferred to do his own dirty work, even now. ![]() ![]() “I think I'll wear the Chian outfit,' he said to his body servant standing waiting for orders. ![]()
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