10-17-2014, 01:21 PM
Evan wrote:
I calculate the Numerus as eight eighty-man centuries, totalling 640 men, plus officers (19 officers approximately: A centurio and biarchus for each century, making 16, plus a Senator (Herald), Primicerius (Sort of like a Second-In-Command, Camp Chief, and Quartermaster), and of course the Tribunis. I might be forgetting one or two. If it had Ducenarii it would be 23 officers.
Have you ever considered the cavalry could be part of the equation? The Roman military is governed by the Pythagorean ratio 3:2. In relation to the legionaries and auxiliary, the legionaries constitute three parts and the auxiliary two parts. So 600 Romans would consist of three bodies each of 200, and 600 auxiliary would consist of two bodies each of 300. That is how simple the Pythagorean maths is employed. The 35 tribes consist of 21 tribes to 14 tribes, thereby creating the ratio 3:2. The 21 tribes equate to three units of seven, and the fourteen tribes two units of seven. This is the hebdomad system working in conjunction with the 3:2 ratio or the perfect fifth.
I’ve finished defining the size and organisation of the Late Roman legion. Pythagoras made it possible. It’s trying to decide which officers command what that bothers me, especially all the different names to deal with.
I calculate the Numerus as eight eighty-man centuries, totalling 640 men, plus officers (19 officers approximately: A centurio and biarchus for each century, making 16, plus a Senator (Herald), Primicerius (Sort of like a Second-In-Command, Camp Chief, and Quartermaster), and of course the Tribunis. I might be forgetting one or two. If it had Ducenarii it would be 23 officers.
Have you ever considered the cavalry could be part of the equation? The Roman military is governed by the Pythagorean ratio 3:2. In relation to the legionaries and auxiliary, the legionaries constitute three parts and the auxiliary two parts. So 600 Romans would consist of three bodies each of 200, and 600 auxiliary would consist of two bodies each of 300. That is how simple the Pythagorean maths is employed. The 35 tribes consist of 21 tribes to 14 tribes, thereby creating the ratio 3:2. The 21 tribes equate to three units of seven, and the fourteen tribes two units of seven. This is the hebdomad system working in conjunction with the 3:2 ratio or the perfect fifth.
I’ve finished defining the size and organisation of the Late Roman legion. Pythagoras made it possible. It’s trying to decide which officers command what that bothers me, especially all the different names to deal with.
