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[split] Distances between files and ranks
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(08-28-2018, 05:19 AM)Steven James Wrote: Nathan wrote:
Arrian does not say that there are five centurions in the first cohort. He says nothing about the number of centurions.
 
DeVoto translation page 115, The Expedition Against the Alani: “five centurions who {are} rear chiefs of the first cohort.”

In the edition that DeVoto was using (Roos) πἐντε is bracketed. The apparatus reads, 'supplevi < πἐντε>' which means that the editor has supplied the word and it is not iπ the original. In other words, Arrian did not say that there were five centurions in the first cohort.
Michael King Macdona

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RE: [split] Distances between files and ranks - by Renatus - 08-28-2018, 09:11 AM

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