Question about ancillaries.

[Dux Corvanus]

He was slaughtered by a legionary because he wouldn't leave his home.

The general of the campaign, Marcelleus, was rather incensed, as he had given specific instructions to capture Archimedes alive.

Yep, the complete story was like this: the guy was in his yard, obsessed with some geometry problem he was drawing with a stick in the pool of sand that the ancient used as we use chalkboards now. The soldier entered the yard and tried to bring him out, but he refused. He was about to find the solution to the problem and wanted to have it solved before leaving. Then the soldier started to erase with his feet the figures that Archimedes had drawn, so the wise man was very angered. He started beating the soldier with his thin stick as he yelled: "Don't erase my circles!"

Those were his last words. The infuriated soldier drew his sword and stabbed him.