03-10-2014, 01:11 PM
Nathan, a friend send me this. He will have a full translation soon. My friend is replying to what he believes it reads and also with Renatus' translation.
"Yes, the anonymous author is saying, in slightly wordy fashion, that the way to avoid a unit ending up understrength through men removing themselves (or perhaps making away with themselves) because they find they dislike military service is to over-recruit by 50 or 100. The precise reason for the one or the other figure is not clear: I conjecture that either there were two distinct grades of recruiting area or (more likely) that there were two sizes of military unit."
Food for thought?
"Yes, the anonymous author is saying, in slightly wordy fashion, that the way to avoid a unit ending up understrength through men removing themselves (or perhaps making away with themselves) because they find they dislike military service is to over-recruit by 50 or 100. The precise reason for the one or the other figure is not clear: I conjecture that either there were two distinct grades of recruiting area or (more likely) that there were two sizes of military unit."
Food for thought?
