Something seems wrong there. The Paterculus reference seems to specifically say that they weren't sold into slavery: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roma

Something seems wrong there. The Paterculus reference seems to specifically say that they weren't sold into slavery: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_Paterculus/2B*.html#p141 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Velleius_... > Well satisfied with the success of his [Julius Caesar] night expedition he returned [p143] to his friends and, after handing his prisoners into custody, went straight to Bithynia to Juncus, the proconsul — for the same man was governor of Bithynia as well as of Asia — and demanded his sanction for the execution of his captives. When Juncus, whose former inactivity had now given way to jealousy, refused, and said that he would sell the captives as slaves, Caesar returned to the coast with incredible speed and crucified all his prisoners before anyone had had time to receive a dispatch from the consul in regard to the matter.