09-30-2014, 07:23 AM
The Roman infantry of the Manipular legion were the middle class at war, the rich boys were on horses and could run away much more easily.
If you consider that most of the older men would have inherited wealth on the deaths of their fathers, then on average the Triarii would have been more wealthy than the other classes. The same thing was found in Medieval Europe, most men married in their thirties (usually to 15 year old girls), precisely because that was the typical age when they had inherited land (or the right to farm a parcel of land) from their fathers; before this happened they could not afford to support a wife and family.
If you consider that most of the older men would have inherited wealth on the deaths of their fathers, then on average the Triarii would have been more wealthy than the other classes. The same thing was found in Medieval Europe, most men married in their thirties (usually to 15 year old girls), precisely because that was the typical age when they had inherited land (or the right to farm a parcel of land) from their fathers; before this happened they could not afford to support a wife and family.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!
