... a couple of days now. I am beginning to feel weak and weary. I believe it may be from the infection caused by a cut on my left shoulder I got when I escaped my execution. I awoke this morning in a daze I was being carried on a cart by some strange people and the maggots are cleaning wound and helping get rid of the infection. Juba a slave was the ... first person that I met once I was semi-conscious. When I passed out again I awoke as we met a slave trader by the name of Proximo. Proximo bought me from the people who had picked me up from my family's grave. I begin gladiator training to...

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