10-12-2018, 12:46 PM
As there's some connection to this topic, I thought I'd put this here...
Could anyone identify and transliterate the the Greek words in the lefthand text of Sozomen below, that the Latin text translates as Legionibus militum Romanorum?
In the righthand column, the Latin legionibus is apparently a translation of arithmos or arithmoi, but I cannot pick out what the word in the other section might be!
The text relates to a plan to send 'Roman legions' (or whatever) into Illyricum c.407 - I'm wondering whether, if these troops were sent at all, they might indeed be the 'five tagmata' that Zosimus mentions as returning to Italy and being defeated by the Goths. In the second column, Stilicho is given four 'arithmoi' (numeri / legions?) to take to the east with him.
Could anyone identify and transliterate the the Greek words in the lefthand text of Sozomen below, that the Latin text translates as Legionibus militum Romanorum?
In the righthand column, the Latin legionibus is apparently a translation of arithmos or arithmoi, but I cannot pick out what the word in the other section might be!
The text relates to a plan to send 'Roman legions' (or whatever) into Illyricum c.407 - I'm wondering whether, if these troops were sent at all, they might indeed be the 'five tagmata' that Zosimus mentions as returning to Italy and being defeated by the Goths. In the second column, Stilicho is given four 'arithmoi' (numeri / legions?) to take to the east with him.
Nathan Ross
