03-03-2011, 04:49 AM
Thanks for the offer, Peroni !
I should certainly be interested in that article. PM with email details sent....
Sardaukar wrote:-
The name of an individual Legion seems unlikely for a permanent mark, since the soldier could rise in the ranks to centurion for example, and we know that centurions could be moved to postings with many different legions. ( and perhaps soldiers too )
Also, it should be re-iterated that this practice appears to be a 'Late Roman' one and may be restricted to the period when, for example, people amputated fingers, toes etc to avoid conscription into the military and desertion was probably rife.
There is no evidence that I can think of off-hand for this practice in the hey-day of the Legions.
I should certainly be interested in that article. PM with email details sent....
Sardaukar wrote:-
Quote:Maybe "LEG XII" or something like that..as been suggested before, probably in arm.
The name of an individual Legion seems unlikely for a permanent mark, since the soldier could rise in the ranks to centurion for example, and we know that centurions could be moved to postings with many different legions. ( and perhaps soldiers too )
Also, it should be re-iterated that this practice appears to be a 'Late Roman' one and may be restricted to the period when, for example, people amputated fingers, toes etc to avoid conscription into the military and desertion was probably rife.
There is no evidence that I can think of off-hand for this practice in the hey-day of the Legions.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
