Ben Kane
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And they would say, well, of course I'm not going to give you that.
And he'd just wait for the fire to come closer.
And then he'd wait till he could get it at a knockdown price and then save the business.
that he was able to personally pay for six legions to be put into the field.
It was approximately a million denarii to support a legion for a year.
And later in his life, Crassus said, you're not rich unless you can pay for a legion.
So 30,000, nearly 30,000 men, 24 to 30,000 men in the field.
And he was given the four legions of the two consuls as well.
So he suddenly, over a period of months, obviously, but more or less suddenly had an army of 10 legions.
So this is what he went to face Spartacus with.
Because by now we're into sort of the summer, coming towards autumn of 71 BC.