divorce your wife

In 82 BC, the dictator of Rome ordered an 18-year-old to divorce his wife. Her father was on the wrong side of a civil war… the losing side.

He refused. Said no to the most powerful and dangerous man in Rome, a man who could have his head displayed in the Forum on command.

He lost everything and went into hiding, sick with a fever, sleeping somewhere new almost every night. Powerless.