06-25-2014, 10:12 AM
Quote:Then there is the other aspect of a centurian where he wears a transverse plume so he can be recognised by his men from front or rear, but if he is at the rear just how does his troop know just where the devil he is.
When at the front facing forward or to the rear he can be seen by his men and recogniside by his crest and can give them all great inspiration is that not what the job was.
That to me is the big question, just what was his job in battle? Was it be an inspiration at the front with little knowledge or control over what the rest of the century was doing or was it to command the century. If it was to command the century, order formation changes, receive and relay orders from the Legate or Tribunes, keep it line with other centuries etc he can't have been in the front rank where his full attention would have been on fighting the man in front that is trying to kill him.
Adam
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
No man resisted or offered to stand up in his defence, save one only, a centurion, Sempronius Densus, the single man among so many thousands that the sun beheld that day act worthily of the Roman empire.
