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Celtic mercenaries along the Nile in Ptolemaic Egypt (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

"Become a mercenary, they said, see the world, they said... it's actually pretty fucking cool."

In a time when travel was slow and expensive, I imagine these young men going to far-off lands that no one in their hometown had ever seen before was a pretty great perk of going a-raiding for a few years for foreign kings.