01-29-2012, 05:09 AM
Quote:It seems that ordo in the plural can also, in effect, mean 'cohort'.That's logical. The (multiple) centuries of the cohort. The word still means centuria.
Quote:In DBC 3.53, Caesar refers to the promotion of the centurion Scaeva from the Eighth Cohort (ab octavis ordinibus) to primus pilus, i.e., to the primi ordines.Literally "from the eighth centuries", i.e. the centuries of the eighth cohort.