03-22-2013, 05:17 AM
Sorry for all the new threads, I haven't posted in a while and thought this was worthy of a split-off.
I looked at the rosters from http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/17-roma...sters.html and thought the sources not much help with my query. So I thought I'd ask the question directly: when we come across a battle account, are slaves and camp-followers included in the numerus? Logic would tell me that they weren't, but I am looking for a more deductive proof. Were there any types of infantry not included?
What accounting procedures were used to arrive at the numerus anyways?
I looked at the rosters from http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/17-roma...sters.html and thought the sources not much help with my query. So I thought I'd ask the question directly: when we come across a battle account, are slaves and camp-followers included in the numerus? Logic would tell me that they weren't, but I am looking for a more deductive proof. Were there any types of infantry not included?
What accounting procedures were used to arrive at the numerus anyways?
