After spending nearly all morning in Aventinus he gave up and went to the Forum Magnum. It was a sight like no other: the crowd was so varied, citizens, freemen, slaves, patricians, women, children, whites, browns and blacks. You could see it all here, it was truly the center of the world. Markets, speeches, performances, slave trading and even gladiatorial fights would be in this place. Lucius tried to sell it to almost everyone who looked like a person with coin, and most snobbed him.