01-12-2013, 03:05 AM
Quote:Konrad Stauner, Das offizielle Schriftwesen des römischen Heeres von Augustus bis Gallienus, 2004. He quotes Iosephus Flavius and Appian.The passage you quote sounds awfully like Polybius.
Josephus (Jewish War III.87-88) certainly refers to centurions checking in with tribunes, and then all of them (if Josephus' problematic ταξίαρχοι is a catch-all term for centurions and tribunes) checking in with the legate. But I don't recall anything more detailed.
Would you mind posting the Appian reference, please?