04-25-2023, 09:48 AM
(04-15-2023, 07:02 AM)kavan Wrote: Suetonius orders the cavalry to ride to London.
Oh dear!
Six days would be slower than the speed of the ordinary cursus publicus, which covered about 50 miles a day. If the province was in danger a military courier could have made the journey in half the time; and we have records of couriers doing 150 miles in a day.
Nathan Ross