Ancient Warfare Answers (262): How did the ancients hire mercenaries?

Kyle asks, ‘What was the mechanism that Carthage (or really any ancient power) used to recruit mercenaries? Were there people whose job it was to travel Gaul, Iberia, Greece, etc., recruiting, or was the sending of mercenaries part of political negations?’

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