The future Marcus Minucius Audens was not born in a roman palace, but in the U.S.A. in the deep desert of California in 1936, during the great depression.

He lives with his parents on the Colorado River, in a shack with a canvas roof that his father and uncles had built. The father is mechanic, works hard at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and gets several times a new job in a new State. The family follws him. At the end, a house is bought in Gresham, Oregon, where the young Marcus spends the most of the World War II.

Then come new movings : Idaho, Pennsylvania, to come back in Oregon, this time in Portland. Marcus ends his school time with honors.

Marcus is asked by his father to join the Navy in exchange for paying for his college degree. Marcus Minucius Audens joins then the Navy, as a submarine trainee. The father dies.

Marcus decides to have his career in the Navy, and becomes Master Chief Torpedoman (TMCM (SS)) and held the temporary rank of Chief Warrant Officer. During these twenty years, he marries and has two children.

The paterfamilias has not lost his thirst for knowledge. Once retired from the Navy, Marcus comes back to his studies, at San Diego State University, gains a Bachelor's Degree in social science and a Master's Degree in History with distinction. Now, he holds teaching credentials in various places in California.

He now enters General Dynamics corporation as a quality assurance Inspector, then, in Connecticut, as a submarine improvement project officer for Ohio Class Submarines.

After he definitively retires in 1995, Marcus devotes himself to military reenactment (Rev War, Civil War and Roman Empire), then enters Nova Roma in 1998, not much after its creation, and is there the founder of the Gens Minucia. Audens thus honors a humble roman soldier who served in Britannia with the XXth Legion, first as a legionary and later as a miles immunes gromaciti (military surveyor). He is the second citizen of Nova Roma to complete the consular cursus honorum.

Consular senator Marcus Minucius Audens, who has taught in the Academia Thules, is interested at the same time by history, specially military one, engineering, writing and model building. He chairs two sodalitates (colleges) and has touched Novaromans and all the people interested in ancient Rome with his impressing production in three publications : the 'Roman Times Quaterly', the 'Pilum', and the 'Eagle', Nova Roma’s publication, now called 'Aquila'. He assumed there the most of the burden of the editorial work, writing on such various topics as roman games, dams, Archimedes’s death or land measuring.

Publius Memmius Albucius