Whilst Chatting To Mr. Tony,

we talked about how much sports people are paid,

some earning hundreds or thousands of dollars or pounds a week, then I read about a Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who rode in the The Circus Maximus in ancient Rome, who in twenty-four years of winnings brought Diocles—likely an illiterate man whose signature move was the strong final dash—the staggering sum of 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money, 


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, the equivalent of $15 billion (£9.6 billion), claims Peter Struck, a professor of classical studies who wrote the piece, so may be today's sports stars are not paid enough?