For context, a Roman foot soldier received a yearly salary of 900 sesterces, an army commander was paid 15 times more, while a senator had to have properties worth at least 1 million sesterces.

为了说明背景， 一名罗马步兵每年的薪饷是900塞特，而军队指挥官的收入则是其15倍，同时一名须拥有至少价值100万塞特的财产。

At one point, the king had to melt down his silver and gold plates to pay his soldiers, which was kind of emblematic of the whole bigger problem.

一度， 国王熔化他的银盘和金盘来支付士兵的薪饷，这某种程度上象征了整个更大的问题。

But most worrisome of all was the fact that thousands of mercenaries, most of them Hamilcar's veterans from the Sicilian campaign, hadn't been paid in years.

但最令人担忧的是，成千上万的雇佣兵（其中大多数是哈米尔卡尔在西西里战役中的兵）已经多年未领到薪饷。