10-10-2007, 06:38 PM
Quote:So was there conscription in the time of Augustus, or was service voluntary, as stated in the article?I think most service was voluntary, but I think that the recruitment of the auxiliary cohortes c.R. after the Teutoburg Forest disaster was forced; but I do not remember where I read this, so I may be wrong.
There was forced conscription during the Bar Kochba-crisis: at least, that's what W. Eck, says in 'The Bar Kokhba Revolt: the Roman point of view' in the Journal of Roman Studies 89 (1999) 76ff.
