From: Dick.Gray@bull.com
Date: Mon Jan 18 1999 - 10:27:47 MST
Mike offers:
>(...Crassus made his fortune in ancient Rome as the owner
>of a fire company, he brought his pump and crew to the scene of a fire,
>and wouldn't even set his pump up until the owner of the building had
>paid him the negotiated price. Eventually he wound up owning most of Rome.
Is this historical, or are you just pulling our legs? I'm an aficionado of
Roman history, but I haven't encountered this story about Crassus before.
He doesn't seem to have been a businessman of any sort.
>This is where the term 'Crass commercialism' came from.).
Ouch. :-) I think we've been set up again...
Dick
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