Ecce Romani is a series of Latin textbooks. It teaches the language through a series of stories, beginning with introuctory Latin and moving on to involve deeper concepts and vocabulary. The plot of the stories revolves around a wealthy family living in the town of Baiae in the Roman province of Campania in A.D. 80. The family is made up of Gaius Cornelius, a Roman senator, his wife, Aurelia, and their two children, Marcus and Cornelia. The family has also taken in a boy named Sextus, whose mother died the previous year in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and whose father is in the Asia Minor. In the beginning chapters of the book, Cornelia often plays with her friend and neighbor Flavia. They also have many slaves, some of whom are Davus, the overseer of their farm, Geta, who runs away and is later captured and labelled with "FUG", and Eucleides, the tutor and keeper of the boys.