27 - Marius 3: The Ruin of Cities
Cost of Glory
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The Roman Empire and the Roman Empire
Marius sends envoys to go bring the news to sulla. They're supposed to take over the army from sulla, await mariu's command. Then marius starts exercising in the public parade grounds. He's doing horseback drills and throwing spears. And you wonder if marius was training in the field that day when he got the news. The envoys are dead. Sulla is marching on rome with his army, 20 thousand men. But these weren't your usual roman soldiers, then, were they? Poor men, italian country folk, freedmen. Many of those men have spent more time with sulla now than they have in the city of o
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