Hailing from Campania, Appius Acilius Brocchus is seeking to raise his families fortunes. Whilst an admirer of the writing and life of Cato The Elder, A A Brocchus is aware that the world is changing. Whilst committed to the noble Roman traditions of gravitas and auctoritas, the values of simplicity and restraint, farming rather than ignoble trade. A A Brocchus is not so foolish as to be unaware that Rome and its needs are not the same as in his granfathers day.