Note from the Translator;
The memoirs of Augustus Stertinius are fascinating reads. I, father Valens of the monastery of Skellig Island, traveled to Rome myself to read and transcribe these literary works of art that give great insight to the early days of the Roman Kingdom and later Empire.
The great leader was born only a year before his father's memoirs were completed, and did not come of age to lead men as a junior tribune until four years prior to Valerius's Death, something that seemed normal but would prove near detrimental to the State of Rome. Being outlived by the playboy of Rome's Consulate, the old Maxentius was mentally unstable and declared himself King of Italy in 523, the year after Valerius's death. The young tribune Stertinius played the man's games, even defending the man's right to kingship in the senate until utterly trusted by Maxentius. His father's old and good friend, Tiberius Laco, traveled from Alexandria to Patavium where the Stertinius family Villa was, to mentor the young man, and his mother, Sappho, remained a constant companion to the man as well. I will not ruin the story of so great a man as history hails as Augustus, but may interject a vaster picture of the history behind the story after the various chapters.