12-30-2005, 11:47 PM
By the way , while we are on the topic of (ahem) Tunic colour, does anyone know the original source of the following taken from Yann le Bohec 'The Imperial Roman Army', London. 1994. ?
'.....It was the custom of soldiers to wear their decorations, and that the right to dress in white for march pasts which Septimius Severus gave to centurions was later extended to all soldiers by Gallienus'.
le Bohec gives no source for this statement so if anybody does know where it originated from I would be very pleased to hear from them. I have looked in the SHA but it did not appear to be there, however younger and better eyes might have seen something I might have missed!
Graham.
'.....It was the custom of soldiers to wear their decorations, and that the right to dress in white for march pasts which Septimius Severus gave to centurions was later extended to all soldiers by Gallienus'.
le Bohec gives no source for this statement so if anybody does know where it originated from I would be very pleased to hear from them. I have looked in the SHA but it did not appear to be there, however younger and better eyes might have seen something I might have missed!
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
