XVIII. =====
The situation on the Rhine is grave. We have only been able to pay for 2 of our 7 legions. Should the barbarians attack now we would be unable to stop them.
Please send 200 Ta... vants who are stopping the barbarian hordes from sweeping through Belgica & Gaul towards Italia & Rome... CURATOR OF BELGICA ====
In Nom Galba Imp it SPQR
We are in receipt of your request for bonus payments
acking of the Senate building a number of letters were recovered amid the ruins from members of the Ge... of the Senate. These give a flavour of what they were telling the Emperor/Senate before they finally ... oversight of delayed payment. Many frontier towns were taxed directly and will no doubt be expecting p... m the Treasury. Barbarians are quite restless and we need reinforcements before beginning a pacificati
s in charge of the finance of the province and answerable to the Emperor rather than the Senate. As an equestrian he was lower than the Senators in status but still a wealthy man by the standards of the Empire as a whole. By Senatorial standards his wealth was modest (3 Talents per quarter as personal
them. After the sack of Rome a few of his letters were found on the floor of the ruined Senate house. ... ETTER I =====
Dearest Mater\\
Honoured Pater
I am well and we are being paid, but not, according to what I am being told, by Rome. The local governors are... eek safety here in Germania Inferior. For myself, we have defeated the Germani, & the border zone is n
Germany & Gaul the self-titled 'Procurator of the West' went to Rome when the Western Governors stopped him from receiving the tax incomes. Arriving at Rome jus
