01-27-2013, 12:51 AM
Another spin off thread from "Cohort Commander?"
In Acts 22:30 we have a "Chief Captain (chiliarchos) of the band (speira)" Is the speira here an auxilliary cohort raised originally by one of the Herods? The chiliarchos is not a Roman by birth but paid a large sum for the privilege. From what I have found, this incident occured during Nero's reign. "Chiliarchos' is some times translated as tribune, it literally means "leader of a thousand", but this does not mean that in Roman times or in the Roman Army he lead a thousand men, but was perhaps simply an equivalent Greek term for a leader of that size of a unit. So is a chiliarcos a tribune? or perhaps a pilus prior? Was ths a regular army cohort or an auxillary cohort?
In Acts 22:30 we have a "Chief Captain (chiliarchos) of the band (speira)" Is the speira here an auxilliary cohort raised originally by one of the Herods? The chiliarchos is not a Roman by birth but paid a large sum for the privilege. From what I have found, this incident occured during Nero's reign. "Chiliarchos' is some times translated as tribune, it literally means "leader of a thousand", but this does not mean that in Roman times or in the Roman Army he lead a thousand men, but was perhaps simply an equivalent Greek term for a leader of that size of a unit. So is a chiliarcos a tribune? or perhaps a pilus prior? Was ths a regular army cohort or an auxillary cohort?
Roger
