Paying a Day's Wage in Rome

A day's wage was a denarius. You just simply dropp that coin of that weight into the hand of each one of your soldiers for every day they soldiered. The idea of paying a day's wage dates all the way back to the punic wars between rome and north africa, carthage. There's an opportunity here, though, as rome goes from being a republic to being an empire, to get a whole bunch of money any time you want to call in this move, socially economically move.