09-01-2018, 06:58 AM
Michael wrote:
Can you give me some references, please? I can see nothing in Hyginus about tribune cohorts or of tribunes commanding any number of men.
After mentioning Hyginus had 80 men in a century, the next part about the tribunes was a different train of thought and was not in reference to Hyginus.
Michael Taylor wrote:
There is no reason to think that there was any attempt to assign tribunes to a designated unit, and the canonical number of "six" was preserved from Polybius to the Principate, even as the strength of the legion fluctuated.
And that is why your research and mine greatly differ.
Can you give me some references, please? I can see nothing in Hyginus about tribune cohorts or of tribunes commanding any number of men.
After mentioning Hyginus had 80 men in a century, the next part about the tribunes was a different train of thought and was not in reference to Hyginus.
Michael Taylor wrote:
There is no reason to think that there was any attempt to assign tribunes to a designated unit, and the canonical number of "six" was preserved from Polybius to the Principate, even as the strength of the legion fluctuated.
And that is why your research and mine greatly differ.
