True to all you said, but no athlete can do (the equivalent of) this today: “His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provin

True to all you said, but no athlete can do (the equivalent of) this today: “His total take home amounted to five times the earnings of the highest paid provincial governors over a similar period – enough to provide grain for the entire city of Rome for one year, or to pay all the ordinary soldiers of the Roman Army at the height of its imperial reach for a fifth of a year”.