09-03-2008, 12:26 PM
Cohorts are first mentioned, as was said above, soon after your start time. However, there is some reason to believe that these early cohorts were more of a grouping intended as a grouping for manoeuvring on the battlefield than as a lasting separate unit. This seems to have been perpetuated into the early Imperial times as the cohort wasn't given a defined commanding officer like a century or legion.
Martin
Fac me cocleario vomere!
Fac me cocleario vomere!