05-31-2019, 09:59 AM
(05-31-2019, 12:23 AM)Condottiero Magno Wrote: According to Ross Cowan, double strength first cohorts, probably not as common, no longer existed in the late period.
Quite so. I think Evan's calculation was based on the standard notion of the 'traditional' legion of the middle Principiate.
I'm assuming he was pointing out that the legions of the Notitia era could not possibly have been this size, as the resulting armies would have been massive.
Nathan Ross