08-08-2014, 02:25 PM
Nathan wrote:
We don't know anything much for certain! Robert's source states 80 men, P-Hyginus said 80 men back in the 2nd (?) century. Beyond that there's not much.
Hypothetically, if in the Severan period a century was 100 men, and then during the reforms of Diocletian a century ended up being 80 men being commanded by a centurion, it would more sense to call the commander of 80 men an ordinarius than a centurion.
We don't know anything much for certain! Robert's source states 80 men, P-Hyginus said 80 men back in the 2nd (?) century. Beyond that there's not much.
Hypothetically, if in the Severan period a century was 100 men, and then during the reforms of Diocletian a century ended up being 80 men being commanded by a centurion, it would more sense to call the commander of 80 men an ordinarius than a centurion.
