Invictus was a seven year old boy, the son of the Roman senator, Brutus. He soon will be sent to his first school, the Ludus Literarius, with his friend, Belisarius. He has heard many tales about the wicked teacher, Litterator Pseudolian, and he is worried about how much he has to work. He arrives at his school, a small room in the back of a store in the forum, promptly when he is supposed to arrive. Litterator, or Magister Ludi Pseudolian, greets him and several other classmates, and among them is Belisarius. Belisarius is a very smart boy, and the Litterator liked very much how adept he was at writing. Invictus, however, was bored at the Ludus Literarius. Sure, he learned reading, writing, and arithmetic, but his passion was with the spear
