09-07-2018, 04:56 PM
The ridge at Ilerda is identified today (at least it was some years ago). Dodge mentions that the historian Rüstow measured that ridge, finding it equivalent to 360 feet in width at the point that Caesar had three cohorts attacking up it (Caes DBC 1.45-46).
Play with the variables of the size of Caesar's cohorts, and do the math. It will describe the possibilities, depending on the size of the cohorts, of the width and depth of each cohort, at least in Caesar's time.
Play with the variables of the size of Caesar's cohorts, and do the math. It will describe the possibilities, depending on the size of the cohorts, of the width and depth of each cohort, at least in Caesar's time.
