11-15-2007, 06:55 PM
Hello Kate,
Are you the same Kate who wrote the preface to C. M Gilliver's The Roman Art of War?
Just a query on the training of recruits? Would it not have been the responsibility of some local official, who may have been in the Legions before becoming a big-wig in what ever town he was retired to, to ensure the local men sent to the Legion's were of suitable quality, and capable of fighting at least at a basic level before being sent off to god knows where?
It would seem a sensible duty to assign a former Primus Pilus or whaterver, if he held some position of authority in the colony or town he retired to?
Just a thought.
Are you the same Kate who wrote the preface to C. M Gilliver's The Roman Art of War?
Just a query on the training of recruits? Would it not have been the responsibility of some local official, who may have been in the Legions before becoming a big-wig in what ever town he was retired to, to ensure the local men sent to the Legion's were of suitable quality, and capable of fighting at least at a basic level before being sent off to god knows where?
It would seem a sensible duty to assign a former Primus Pilus or whaterver, if he held some position of authority in the colony or town he retired to?
Just a thought.
Visne partem mei capere? Comminus agamus! * Me semper rogo, Quid faceret Iulius Caesar? * Confidence is a good thing! Overconfidence is too much of a good thing.
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
[b]Legio XIIII GMV. (Q. Magivs)RMRS Remember Atuatuca! Vengence will be ours!
Titus Flavius Germanus
Batavian Coh I
Byron Angel
