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Veteran legionaries of the Tenth legion await orders to engage Metellus Scipios forces. Outside of Thapsus, Africa (modern Ras Dimas, Tunisia), april 6, 46 BC.

Cretan archers attack Germanic warriors, east of the Rhine, 54 BC.

South of Memphis, along the shore of the Nile, some roman legionaries relax with a game of dice, 45 BC.

Julius Caesar watches as his legions march to suppress Vercingetorix's revolt in Gaul in 52 BC.

A roman testudo advances on the Ptolemaic defense lines during the Battle of the Nile, 13 January, 47 BC.

A Publicanus, a Roman tax collector, argues with a local farmer about his debts to the Roman state, 28 BC, Faiyum Oasis, Egypt.

A consul accompanied by an aquilifer and cornicen looks out at the battlefield as the sun sets. Behind him the triarii and the principes patiently awaits their orders.

Hastati, with Velites skirmishing in front of them, prepares to repel a charge by Senone Gauls. Northern Picenum, Italy, 295 BC.

Roman testudos are harassed by Ptolemaic skirmishers as they approach the royal army’s fortified camp along the shores of the Nile. Nile Delta, Ptolemaic Egypt, 47 BC.