07-04-2014, 09:35 PM
Quote:Didn't other sources state one hundred men in a century?
Only Vegetius and Pseudo-Hyginus give a number for the men in the century. Vegetius says 100, P-H (in De munitionibus castrorum) says 80. Could be that both were correct, at different eras (and the century was also much smaller before and afterwards!).
Modern scholarship tends to favour P-Hyginus as being more trustworthy - he was writing about the army of his own day and apparently know his stuff - and the size of excavated barrack blocks seems to suggest 80 men rather than 100, but it's still interpretation.
Nathan Ross