04-10-2006, 10:40 PM
Quote:Tervingi. About 100,000 children, women and men, plus mules, oxen, etc. led by chiefs/kings Alavivus and Fritigern.Where do you get those numbers?
Blockley once numbers of 200.000 all told, but most scholars today think such number manifestly absurd. Burns, Delbrück, Grabriel&Boose, Nicasie settle near a figure of 75.000 for all the confederacy, including warriors, women&children, elderly and slaves.
If it took the Romans several days to ferry this number across it would have been some task: if the number would have been much higher it would have taken weeks! :!:
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
