Publius Licinius Crassus Mucianus

While he was consul in Asia, Publius Crassus, whom the Romans deemed five times blessed, sent a Greek engineer to fetch the tallest of two ship masts he had seen in Athens in order to turn it into a kind of battering ram.

And when Crassus wrote to an expert and explained what he intended to do with that mast, did he not seem to be discussing his decision with that man and to invite him to object to his plans?