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Wikipedia September 21, 2026 at 04:57 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus

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consul 95 BC
Correction

Marcus Crassus’s father, Publius Licinius Crassus, was consul in 97 BC, not 95 BC.

Full reasoning

The consular year is wrong here. Attalus’s ancient-source index identifies Publius Licinius Crassus Dives as the Roman consul of 97 B.C., and its year-by-year fasti for 97 B.C. list the consuls as Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus and P. Licinius M.f. Crassus. So the father of Marcus Crassus was consul in 97 BC; 95 BC was instead the consulship of Lucius Licinius Crassus, the famous orator, a different member of the broader Licinii Crassi family.

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until the Parthians eventually ran out of arrows.
Correction

The Parthians did not run out of arrows at Carrhae. Ancient accounts say camel-borne resupply meant the Roman hope of waiting out the missile fire failed.

Full reasoning

This sentence gets the key dynamic of Carrhae backwards. Ancient accounts say the Romans hoped the Parthians would exhaust their missiles, but then realized that camels loaded with arrows were constantly resupplying the horse archers. Plutarch says that once the Romans saw the camel train, Crassus understood there was “no end” to the barrage. So it is incorrect to say Crassus stayed in formation until the Parthians ran out of arrows; the point of the episode is that they didn't.

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  • Battle of Carrhae

    Now as long as they had hopes that the enemy would exhaust their missiles ... the Romans held out; but when they perceived that many camels laden with arrows were at hand ... then Crassus, seeing no end to this, began to lose heart

  • Plutarch • Life of Crassus

    Thus many died, and the survivors also were incapacitated for fighting ... When they perceived that many camels laden with arrows were at hand ... Crassus, seeing no end to this, began to lose heart

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Catalina's Riddle
Correction

The Steven Saylor novel is titled *Catilina's Riddle*, not *Catalina's Riddle*.

Full reasoning

This is the wrong title. Steven Saylor’s official series page lists the Roma Sub Rosa novel as Catilina's Riddle, and Hachette UK likewise publishes it under that name. The article’s Catalina's Riddle is a misspelling.

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