03-30-2007, 07:39 PM
Very interesting and a good deal more informative than the preceding discussion (no offence intended to those contributors).
I have a question or two and an observation, though:
Where does the figure of 10,000 Foot and 2,200 Horse come from? (i.e. do we know Livy's source?)
Do you think that an Allied or Roman Cohort is likely to have been a stable number of men in the Roman Republic? I rather suspect the number varied quite a bit from unit to unit, much like the strength of a Legion itself.
The difference between 1,600 and 2,200 Horse is 600, which is, I suspect, the basis of your idea that the second figure Livy gives relates to allies only?
Matthew James Stanham
I have a question or two and an observation, though:
Where does the figure of 10,000 Foot and 2,200 Horse come from? (i.e. do we know Livy's source?)
Do you think that an Allied or Roman Cohort is likely to have been a stable number of men in the Roman Republic? I rather suspect the number varied quite a bit from unit to unit, much like the strength of a Legion itself.
The difference between 1,600 and 2,200 Horse is 600, which is, I suspect, the basis of your idea that the second figure Livy gives relates to allies only?
Matthew James Stanham
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