• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    Wikipedia: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_(Roman_army)

    At the time of the Punic Wars, pay was set at 2 obols per day, or one-third of a drachma (one denarius after 211 BC), for the period they were under arms.[2] In addition, each infantryman was entitled to a share of the spoils of war (prisoners were sold as slaves, as well as animals, treasure, weapons, and other goods), which were auctioned off and the proceeds distributed to officers and men according to various criteria. Centurions received twice the pay of their men, that is, four obols or two-thirds of a drachma a day. As for the food ration, infantrymen were distributed about two-thirds of an Attic medimnos of grain per month.[3]

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      This particular scene would fall under the Augustan section of the article, as it takes place during the reign of Nero according to the caption!