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Today, mercenaries are often paid much more than regular military soldiers to fight. Did that hold true in the ancient world? Did Cyrus the Younger pay a ton of money to get the "elite" 10,000 Greek hoplites to help his army wage war against his brother?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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