07-19-2015, 10:41 PM
I agree that seems to disprove Hepworth's thesis about who were ducenarii.
I just read Ross Cowan's latest Osprey and immediately came across a conflict.
According to Hepworth, a centurio ordinarius meant an "ordinary" centurion in cohorts II - X.
Cowan says that the term ordinarius comes from being a member of the primi ordines.
Has a different scholarly consensus been reached during the last 50 years? The primi ordines
interpretation seems odd considering that ordinarius becomes the general term for all centurions.
I just read Ross Cowan's latest Osprey and immediately came across a conflict.
According to Hepworth, a centurio ordinarius meant an "ordinary" centurion in cohorts II - X.
Cowan says that the term ordinarius comes from being a member of the primi ordines.
Has a different scholarly consensus been reached during the last 50 years? The primi ordines
interpretation seems odd considering that ordinarius becomes the general term for all centurions.
