08-15-2013, 10:29 PM
Aha! No, Polybius just does not talk about proportions. Whatever the total number of the light infantry in the speirae, according to Polybius it was evenly divided in all. The exact words he uses are "(the number of the light infantry) equal to all the parts they distributed" where "parts" clearly are the 30 speirae. As I also said to Steven, I will not judge your theory, everyone has theories, me included, their veracity is another issue. But to the question whether Polybius can be stretched to mean something similar to what you propose, the answer unfortunately is no.
