12-18-2008, 09:10 PM
In 21 AD there was some debate as to whether Roman governors' wives should accompany their husbands to the provinces.
Caecina Serverus argued against it on the grounds that women "paraded among the soldiers" and that "a woman [Plancina] had presided at the exercises of the cohorts and the manoevers of the legions"
(source "Women in Roman Britain" - Lindsay Allason-Jones - British Museum Publications - 0-7141-1392-1)
And a late Roman example:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NwQMAA ... n+praefect )&source=bl&ots=HcO-Z2o2fI&sig=KuZE8nYQukJYDMq1aWvBttF7oLY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
Caecina Serverus argued against it on the grounds that women "paraded among the soldiers" and that "a woman [Plancina] had presided at the exercises of the cohorts and the manoevers of the legions"
(source "Women in Roman Britain" - Lindsay Allason-Jones - British Museum Publications - 0-7141-1392-1)
And a late Roman example:
http://books.google.com/books?id=NwQMAA ... n+praefect )&source=bl&ots=HcO-Z2o2fI&sig=KuZE8nYQukJYDMq1aWvBttF7oLY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
John Kaler MSG, USA Retired
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Member Legio V (Tenn, USA)
Staff Member Ludus Militus https://www.facebook.com/groups/671041919589478/
Owner Vicus and Village: https://www.facebook.com/groups/361968853851510/
