02-05-2008, 08:59 PM
You'are probably right about the origin of century names.
It's a theory about the number of calones in a century, but calones are quite mysterious characters in the roman army !
I'm not sure they were slave... We cand found them from many passages in Caesar: in fact, we are told by Josephus that, from away living with the soldiers and being present at their exercises, they were inferior to them alone in skill and valour.
You can see after the cavalry man Flavius Bassus with a calo bringing him some spears ( second half of first century AD -Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln © Agnès Vinas)
![[Image: calohs3.jpg]](http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/6131/calohs3.jpg)
About the number of calones with the soldiers in a century, we suppose that 1 or 2 mules may with a contubernium (8 soldiers). Two calones for one contubernium and this mules seems necessary !
Cf : Gary Brueggeman website about the legion's baggage train
http://www.garyb.0catch.com/march4_bagg ... ggage.html
PS : Sorry for my bad english !
It's a theory about the number of calones in a century, but calones are quite mysterious characters in the roman army !
I'm not sure they were slave... We cand found them from many passages in Caesar: in fact, we are told by Josephus that, from away living with the soldiers and being present at their exercises, they were inferior to them alone in skill and valour.
You can see after the cavalry man Flavius Bassus with a calo bringing him some spears ( second half of first century AD -Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Köln © Agnès Vinas)
About the number of calones with the soldiers in a century, we suppose that 1 or 2 mules may with a contubernium (8 soldiers). Two calones for one contubernium and this mules seems necessary !
Cf : Gary Brueggeman website about the legion's baggage train
http://www.garyb.0catch.com/march4_bagg ... ggage.html
PS : Sorry for my bad english !
