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Re:The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer by rsynnott on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:14AM (#22778689)
It helps if you think of Rome less as a modern democracy, and more as a kind of mafia state. These weren’t civil servants; it was very normal for them to make a fortune out of a provincial governorship.
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