One might expect that Glaucia would go to Roscius and break the news of his father’s death immediately, but there one would be wrong. Glaucia, who turned out to be a pal of Titus Magnus’, went straight to Titus Capito, Sextus’ local enemy. Two things would stand out here to any budding Columbo, or even a half-awake beat cop: first, that Roscius was in Ameria, fifty-six miles away from Rome, when the murder occurred, and second, that Sextus’ enemies knew about the murder before anyone else.
