The Christian and the Lion
James, Wesley a.
Paethias Demidus Arius, a legatus of Rome, had led legions against Gaul, Germania, Parthia and served under Vespasian in the Judean War. It is after Caesar Nero summons Paethias to take a small contingent of Rome's elite centurions to Greece that Paethias encounters Antiachus Miltiades Delphanae, the last thread of the ancient Spartan military. At the cost of thirty-three of his centurions, Paethias is able to capture the last Spartan. Fearing...
