Your father slowly lowers you from the unbearable heat. His eye is sober and fixed. Not a word is spoken, but you understand with clarity of purpose your life’s work: to route and destroy the Romans, who had shattered your country's control of the Western Mediterranean and plunged its people into poverty from war debt. Your father slowly lowers you from the unbearable heat. His eye is sober and fixed. Not a word is spoken, but you understand with clarity of purpose your life’s work: to route and destroy the Romans, who had shattered your country's control of the Western Mediterranean and plunged its people into poverty from war debt.