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		jamiek88 on Jan 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As Xenophon saw it Poor merchants, prostitutea and all kinds of people serving/scavenging from the army would follow the train in those times. /r/askhistorians has a great thread on this, will try and find it.

sherr on Jan 12, 2019 [–]

Probably a lot of slaves as well. One has to consider how a large band of soldiers survives "in country". A lot of pillaging, ravaging and general nastiness. Slaves were a fact of life back then.

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