12-03-2015, 03:23 PM
There's a note in Ammianus Marcellinus (17.8.1) that the campaigning season in Gaul did not begin until July.
This is perhaps a further argument (assuming the situation was the same in Britain) for Paulinus not commencing his campaign against Mona in March or April 61 - unless he was forced to do it for some reason.
However, if he began it in July 60 he could very well have been concluding his campaign in September.
(EDIT - Diodorus does sound sceptical, although there seems to be a note in Hesiod's Works and Days that the main wheat crop should be planted a month after the autumn equinox. So it seems that winter-growing wheat was the main crop throughout the ancient world, as Deryk says. If only one crop was planted, it would have been this one.)
This is perhaps a further argument (assuming the situation was the same in Britain) for Paulinus not commencing his campaign against Mona in March or April 61 - unless he was forced to do it for some reason.
However, if he began it in July 60 he could very well have been concluding his campaign in September.
(EDIT - Diodorus does sound sceptical, although there seems to be a note in Hesiod's Works and Days that the main wheat crop should be planted a month after the autumn equinox. So it seems that winter-growing wheat was the main crop throughout the ancient world, as Deryk says. If only one crop was planted, it would have been this one.)
Nathan Ross