Brueggeman\'s Roman Army website

[D B Campbell]

Hi Gary. Your front page advertises a "new" page on The Hyginus Camp, so I had a quick look. I notice that you say:

Readers who know Latin will have noticed that the right (dextra) and left (sinistra) gates are reversed. This is because Hyginus visualized the camp with the Porta Praetoria at the bottom whereas modern representations always put it at the top.

I wondered why you think this, as Hyginus doesn't actually specify which is which. (Also, he calls them porta dexterior and porta sinistrior, using the comparative form of the adjectives, but that's by the by.)