03-10-2014, 01:03 AM
Nathan, a friend is translating the whole section but so far “the sense seems to be that the author is saying that it is a good idea to over-recruit by 50-100 men in order not to have any shortfall by the time all the recruits have been sifted. The passage is in 4th century Latin and has a few usages that seem to be alien to dictionary entries, so it may be necessary to establish what is being said in the section as a whole.”