09-22-2007, 08:57 PM
I've pinched this post by Sardaukar/Mika from another thread as it provides some valuable information on the subject of "who pays?" that we discussed here.......
Sardaukar said:
Sardaukar said:
Quote:There were interpretations of Gallic War that not all Caesar's legionaries wore lorica hamata. While I think they did, it raises the question, could he afford it in monetary sense ? He commanded often 10-11 legions...and that's lot of chainmail.
There was this saying of Crassus that man should not deem himself rich if he could not raise and equip a legion.
Operating a single 4,500-man legion for a year ran to some 4 million sestertii.
(Cicero, in Pis., 86; Plutarch, Cae., 28 & Pomp., 55. Supporting this is Cicero's comment that the two under strength legions he controlled in Cilicia in 51 B.C. each cost about 3 million sestertii in pay and maintenance a year (Cicero, ad Fam., V , 20, 9, & ad Att., V, 11, 5), which was about 60% of the annual revenues of the province (Cf., Frank, pp. 136ff)).
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff