12-30-2006, 10:37 AM
Probably the numbers for Costantine, Maxentius in 312 are the total men in the rolls, not the field army.
For the 324 i agree with Treagold, Zosimus can have followed a strange logic: for Costantine the roll's army of Balcans taken from Licinius recently,for Licinius the rolls of ex-Maximinus Daia army.
If we make how Treagold make, a parallel calculation on 235 and notitia dignitatum numbers (adding and subtracting the changing in the century), we have +- 130000 men for the Balcans and 165000 for Egypt and Asia.
For the 324 i agree with Treagold, Zosimus can have followed a strange logic: for Costantine the roll's army of Balcans taken from Licinius recently,for Licinius the rolls of ex-Maximinus Daia army.
If we make how Treagold make, a parallel calculation on 235 and notitia dignitatum numbers (adding and subtracting the changing in the century), we have +- 130000 men for the Balcans and 165000 for Egypt and Asia.
"Each historical fact needs to be considered, insofar as possible, no with hindsight and following abstract universal principles, but in the context of own proper age and environment" Aldo A. Settia
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
a.k.a Davide Dall\'Angelo
SISMA- Società Italiana per gli Studi Militari Antichi
