Roman Citizen # 5 (illustrated by Kai Martin)

Augustus Caesar and the dwarf, Lycius spend the day sitting on some steps near the marketplace dressed as beggars. As citizens pass they discuss politics, power and personal legacy.

This citizen is spending the afternoon in the Roman market near the steps where Caesar and Lycius are sitting. He gives Caesar five ases and tells them that once he was a slave who was freed by his masters. Now he is a wealthy wine seller and has fifty slaves of his own. He continues and says that “No man knows the future” and that tomorrow he could be sitting on the steps begging for money.

He appears in Sandman # 30, page 15, and is panels 1-3.