ABSTRACT
This chapter explains how Caius Crassus journeyed along the highroad from Rome to Capua, in the month of May. It is recorded that as early as the middle of the month of March, the highroad from the Eternal City, Rome to Capua, was opened to public travel once again. The road was opened in March, and two months later, in the middle of May, Caius Crassus and his sister, Helena, and her friend, Claudia Marius, set off to spend a week with relatives in Capua. They left Rome on the morning of a bright, clear and cool day, a perfect day for travel, all of them young and bright-eyed and full of delight in the trip and in the adventures which would certainly befall them. They planned to spend five days on the road, putting up each evening at the country villa of a friend or relative, and this way, by easy and pleasant stages, to come to Capua.
