03-03-2014, 04:33 AM
Today, after spending some weeks sorting through all the references concerning the numbers for the Late Roman army, and also compiling the various names for some of these units, then doing a comparison with the Strategicon, I am now very confident about ascertaining the size of a Roman legion.
I was right in the middle of writing about how the lack of information makes it impossible to reach a firm conclusion, and therefore preparing to end the book on this note when after going back over the numbers looking for a reference, I noticed something that made me hit the calculator once again. It's not just about numbers; it has also revealed something about the writing style of Zosimus.
I was once told that if your research is correct, insights shall follow. If your research is incorrect, you will always be defending it. To those who think my Pythagorean research is the work of a crackpot, it still keeps working and now my Pythagorean research also helps to uncover the organisation of the Late Roman legion. I just did not realise for this period the Romans adjusted the system so as to change the Pthagorean ratio in order to conform to their time frame. So they have abandoned the 3:2 ratio (the perfect fifth), which if you read in Plato's Timeaus, is associated with the song of the sirens, the Romans are now working on the octave plus the additional time since Augustus. I have read about this but did not realise the significants of what I was reading. In the Pythagorean comos, the octave ends with the planet Saturn, which corresponds with the age of Augustus (the Golden Age and Saturn). So at this point the octave has ended (756,000 stadia). As there is no twelve step program or manual telling me what to do and how to use the Roman Pythagorean system, it has been a matter of learn as I go.
In the end it is about taking the Vegetius legion and applying the new ratio.
I was right in the middle of writing about how the lack of information makes it impossible to reach a firm conclusion, and therefore preparing to end the book on this note when after going back over the numbers looking for a reference, I noticed something that made me hit the calculator once again. It's not just about numbers; it has also revealed something about the writing style of Zosimus.
I was once told that if your research is correct, insights shall follow. If your research is incorrect, you will always be defending it. To those who think my Pythagorean research is the work of a crackpot, it still keeps working and now my Pythagorean research also helps to uncover the organisation of the Late Roman legion. I just did not realise for this period the Romans adjusted the system so as to change the Pthagorean ratio in order to conform to their time frame. So they have abandoned the 3:2 ratio (the perfect fifth), which if you read in Plato's Timeaus, is associated with the song of the sirens, the Romans are now working on the octave plus the additional time since Augustus. I have read about this but did not realise the significants of what I was reading. In the Pythagorean comos, the octave ends with the planet Saturn, which corresponds with the age of Augustus (the Golden Age and Saturn). So at this point the octave has ended (756,000 stadia). As there is no twelve step program or manual telling me what to do and how to use the Roman Pythagorean system, it has been a matter of learn as I go.
In the end it is about taking the Vegetius legion and applying the new ratio.
