Mons Graupius Legions

[Nathan Ross]

Tacitus mentions four Batavian and two Tungrian cohorts.

He appears to, now I check - "quattuor Batavorum cohortis ac Tungrorum duas cohortatus est"... But the Church and Brodribb translation (which is online in various versions, and was the one I was lazily relying on) gives only three Batavian and two Tungrian. It would appear, actually, that the original text has a lacuna at this point: "Agricola... Batavorum cohortes ac Tungrorum duas cohortatus est" (according to 'Some Notes upon Roman Britain' in Classical Review Vol 18 , 9, 1904) - the missing number having been variously supplied as quinque, tres or quattuor. To be fair, though, it does seem that the latter is the accepted modern one, and the Church/ Brodribb translation is very old (1868?!) and presumably relying on some outdated interpretations... This, I suppose, is one problem with having all these very old translations floating about on the web!

So anyway, less :oops: than :? in this case, but point taken!

- Nathan