THE FOUNDATION OF AESIS
297 B.C.
The man who was plowing the fertile fields on the slope of the hill facing east did not know what iron was, and not even bronze. The plow was made of flint stone and was pulled by a pair of docile auri, brown coat and huge horns, and you had to exert a lot of force on it to make it sink into the ground in an efficient way. From his father, belonging to the ethnic group of the Senoni Gauls, Kakin had inherited powerful muscles which seemed sculptured, they were so evident in the effort he was making as he worked the fields. From his mother instead he had inherited the delicate facial features, more typical of the populations that lived the other side of the Apennines, the Umbrians, but above all the Etruscans.
He was already twenty-five years old, he woul
