Roman Centurion calls dibs.

>The matrons begin to cast their clothes and silver over the wall, and bending over as far as the lower part of the bosom, with outstretched hands beseech the Romans to spare them, and not to sacrifice to their resentment even women and children, as they had done at Avaricum. Some of them let themselves down from the walls by their hands, and surrendered to our soldiers. >Lucius Fabius, a centurion of the Eighth Legion who, it was ascertained, had said that day among his fellow soldiers that he was excited by the plunder of Avaricum, and would not allow any one to mount the wall before him, finding three men of his own company, and being raised up by them, scaled the wall. He himself, in turn, taking hold of them one by one drew them up to the wall. _______________________________________ **Source:** Caesar, Julius, W. A. McDevitte, and W. S. Bohn. “Book VII, Chapter XLVII.” *The Gallic Wars: Julius Caesar's Account of the Roman Conquest of Gaul*. St. Petersburg, FL: Red and Black Pub., 2008. 210. Print. ____________________________________________ **Further Reading:** [Siege of Avaricum]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaricum) [Legio octava Augusta (Augustus' Eighth Legion)]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legio_VIII_Augusta)