Baen, New York, May 1986, 1st pr./original.  ISBN 0-671-65568-X.  MMPB, 314 pages.  Very light edge and cover wear; small faint corner bends; tight binding.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages; appears unread.  ‘The aliens were looking for a few good fighters, warriors who could be brave without blasters, and content with shields of bronze…  What they got were Romans…  The aliens knew that in these primitives they possessed the finest low-tech soldiers in the galaxy.  What they did not understand was the madness of enslaving a Roman legion and leaving them with swords in their hands.’ (from rear wrap)