Ancient army numbers

[Robert Vermaat]

In your late Roman example you posted the regular army but failed to include those who comprised the bulk of the manpower. http://usna.edu/Users/history/abels/hh38...taries.htm

An internet page like this may not be the best of sources.. :whistle:

You started with 225 and 212, both showing the oposite from your suggestion, as does carthages and Greek numbers, you then moved to 4th cent AD Notitia numbers, which again show the flaw in your method.

The Notitia Dignitatum does not give us any numbers. Number-guessing is done with the number of units multiplied by estimates of numbers within those units. But as we cannot possibly ascertain those numbers per unit (assuming this was even standard), that's all we can do - guess.