What Roman military hero do you admire most?

[Theodosius the Great]

Didn't Caesar let 20k women and children starve between the lines at Alesia?
That has always bothered me.

I'm unsure about the figure but, yes, that did happen.

Caesar was probably the most brutal Roman who ever lived due to his actions in Gaul alone. I'm really hard pressed to think of another Roman general who could rival the scale of his brutality. Two others come to mind: Scipio Aemilianus at the destruction of Carthage and Vespasian, particularly during the Jewish war where he rounded up civilians and executed them en masse to terrorize the population into submission. But I think Caesar still claims a higher body count.

BTW, I have another suggestion for a hero: Marcus Antonius Primus
A distinguished commander who basically won the civil war for Vespasian.

~Theo