[jasunflower]

Isn't it really interesting that news would take weeks or months to traverse the whole of the Roman empire? Novel information is still not uniformly distributed in our era, but thinking to back then, even news of a new emperor or something did not happen automatically. You could have a departing army coming across a retreating army, or something like that.

[iso1631]

Not even back then. It was only 150 years ago that the transcontinental telegraph allowed messages to pass from one side of America to another in hours rather than a "couldn't be done" 10 days for the Pony Express. in the 1856 election it took weeks or even months for the news of the new president to reach across the country.