01-31-2013, 09:14 PM
Antiochus,
Here is a calculation that may interest you. If Livy knew no more than that a cohort comprised 600 men, that a legion held 300 cavalrymen and that a consular army consisted of two legions, there is Tempanius' cohort of cavalrymen-turned-infantry - the cavalry element of a consular army. I don't know that this proves very much (I am sceptical that one can talk in such terms as early as 423BC) but it may demonstrate what Livy believed or thought his audience would understand.
Here is a calculation that may interest you. If Livy knew no more than that a cohort comprised 600 men, that a legion held 300 cavalrymen and that a consular army consisted of two legions, there is Tempanius' cohort of cavalrymen-turned-infantry - the cavalry element of a consular army. I don't know that this proves very much (I am sceptical that one can talk in such terms as early as 423BC) but it may demonstrate what Livy believed or thought his audience would understand.
Michael King Macdona
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
And do as adversaries do in law, -
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
(The Taming of the Shrew: Act 1, Scene 2)
