What Happened When Roman Soldiers Ran Out of Food During War?

What Happened When Roman Soldiers Ran Out of Food During War? Your hands are raw before the column even stops moving. Not blistered — raw, the skin worn thin from the pack straps over eleven days of march, and the leather is damp now because it has been pressed against your shoulders long enough to absorb you. The camp is going up around you, the same camp it always is, stakes and ditch and four square walls, eight thousand men doing the same thing in the same order they did it yesterday and the day before. And somewhere behind the tent line, the wagons that were supposed to be here two days ago are not here. You know this already. Everyone knows. Nobody says it yet.