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The Making of a Caesar | Guest: Furius Pertinax | 5/3/23

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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Army

Geis-Marrus was one of the two leaders of Rome for that year. He is given carte blanche to basically build a new army. The Romans accrued a huge number of slaves over its two or three centuries of fighting after the Carthaginian wars. And so what's happened is that Rome, by winning spoils and winning war, has brought in a lot of gold into Rome.

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