• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They could count, but they also tended to enormously overestimate how many people died. See for example this Wikipedia article. There’s also this article which looks like it would be interesting but I can’t get the full text of it:

    “I do not think anyone in his senses would accept that!” Remarks on Numbers of Fallen Soldiers in Roman Historiography and commentarii