01-28-2012, 11:31 PM
I fear I may be getting into a circular argument here but if Caesar wrote "from the first hastatus" the inference is that there is a further or second hastatus. Does this not, therefore, suggest that even if we are talking about cohorts and not maniples as a unit "each cohort had six centuries, two of which formerly made up the maniple of hastati", Caesar's reference is still to a sub formation within the cohort known to him as a hastatus. (Albeit a possibly inherited term from a previous army formation)
So Fulginus was a centurion within the first hastatus...whatever that was... making him one of the two senior centurions of the First Cohort (and not the third as I stated earlier!!)
Yes?
So Fulginus was a centurion within the first hastatus...whatever that was... making him one of the two senior centurions of the First Cohort (and not the third as I stated earlier!!)
Yes?
Moi Watson
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!
