03-01-2014, 01:31 AM
The King Alfred Anglo-Saxon Version of Orosius gives the following for the battle of Pharsalus (Book V, Chapter 12 5) page 170:
https://archive.org/details/kingalfredsangl00boswgoog
“He (Pompey) had eighty-eight cohorts, which we now call Truman, each of which was, in those days, one thousand five hundred men.”
The anglo-saxon is (page 111) He haefde [eahta ond] hund eahtatig [coortana], paet we nu Truman hatao, paet waes, on pam dagum, [fif] hund manna, and an M.”
The same account in a modern translation of Orosius (Book 6 15) states
https://sites.google.com/site/demontortoise2000/
“Pompey stationed eighty-eight cohorts in a triple line.”
There is no mention of the Truman, so does anyone know what the story is behind this?
I've since added the Latin below of which I haven't worked through with a Latin dictionary. Does the translation support a unit of 1500 men?
Pompeius octoginta et octo cohortes triplici ordine locauit: fuerunt autem peditum quadraginta milia, equites in sinistro cornu sescenti, in dextro quingenti, praeterea reges multi, senatores equitesque Romani plurimi, absque leuium armaturarum magna copia.
https://archive.org/details/kingalfredsangl00boswgoog
“He (Pompey) had eighty-eight cohorts, which we now call Truman, each of which was, in those days, one thousand five hundred men.”
The anglo-saxon is (page 111) He haefde [eahta ond] hund eahtatig [coortana], paet we nu Truman hatao, paet waes, on pam dagum, [fif] hund manna, and an M.”
The same account in a modern translation of Orosius (Book 6 15) states
https://sites.google.com/site/demontortoise2000/
“Pompey stationed eighty-eight cohorts in a triple line.”
There is no mention of the Truman, so does anyone know what the story is behind this?
I've since added the Latin below of which I haven't worked through with a Latin dictionary. Does the translation support a unit of 1500 men?
Pompeius octoginta et octo cohortes triplici ordine locauit: fuerunt autem peditum quadraginta milia, equites in sinistro cornu sescenti, in dextro quingenti, praeterea reges multi, senatores equitesque Romani plurimi, absque leuium armaturarum magna copia.
