25bc rome one year on in the eternal city tempus fugit emperor augustus caesar is still the most powerful man in the known world and languishing somewhere near the other end of the food chain are three lowly plebs marcus stylax and their feckless slave grumio tom rosenthal joel fry and ryan sampson as the ancestors of generation rent they live in a squalid block in the worst part of town presided over by the ruthless landlady maureen lipman they work dead end jobs for rome s th