09-14-2018, 02:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2018, 02:32 PM by Steven James.)
Michael wrote:
I seem to have two versions of that, one of 120 pages and the other of 123. I take it that the latter is the definitive version. It is a long time since I read it. Can you direct me to a particular page or section, to save me either reading through the whole or skipping through it and perhaps missing something?
My version is now 188 pages. It is simple to find, type in Tribune Cohort. It has its own heading, and comes after an explanation of “the Century, followed by the Maniple, then The Cohort, followed by the Tribune Cohort.
Because it is commanded by a military tribune I called it a tribune cohort in order to avoid confusion with the 10 cohort system. If anyone has a better name I would be interested. Primary sources refer to it as a cohort. And technically they are right in doing so as Varro does state a cohort was a gathering of several maniples. The early vexillation organisation was also called a cohort. And this is why there are accounts saying four cohorts each of 600 men, a cohort of 800 men, and two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men. I am not ashamed to omit that I have undertaken the most comprehensive study of the early legion of the republic from 509 BC to 406 BC. And without understanding the foundations of the Roman legion, makes it very difficult to understand the organisation of the legions that followed.
I seem to have two versions of that, one of 120 pages and the other of 123. I take it that the latter is the definitive version. It is a long time since I read it. Can you direct me to a particular page or section, to save me either reading through the whole or skipping through it and perhaps missing something?
My version is now 188 pages. It is simple to find, type in Tribune Cohort. It has its own heading, and comes after an explanation of “the Century, followed by the Maniple, then The Cohort, followed by the Tribune Cohort.
Because it is commanded by a military tribune I called it a tribune cohort in order to avoid confusion with the 10 cohort system. If anyone has a better name I would be interested. Primary sources refer to it as a cohort. And technically they are right in doing so as Varro does state a cohort was a gathering of several maniples. The early vexillation organisation was also called a cohort. And this is why there are accounts saying four cohorts each of 600 men, a cohort of 800 men, and two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men. I am not ashamed to omit that I have undertaken the most comprehensive study of the early legion of the republic from 509 BC to 406 BC. And without understanding the foundations of the Roman legion, makes it very difficult to understand the organisation of the legions that followed.
