02-22-2018, 04:17 PM
Here are two possible new references to cavalry cohorts:
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“I have given the command of two cavalry cohorts. (duas cohortes alares)”
(page 310-311 Miscellaneous letters of Marcus Aurelius)
https://archive.org/stream/correspondenc...ch/cohorts
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The problem though is that this statement can have a different interpretation:
A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, Alexander ADAM (LL.D.):
cohortes alares, auxiliary cohorts of infantry, placed on the wings, Liv. 10,40 & 43. distinguished from the legionary cohorts; thus, crebras stationes disponunt equitum, et cohortium alariarum ; legionariasque interjiciunt cohortes, Caes. B. C. 1,73. cf. 21,18.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=8xNgAAA...es&f=false
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Pliny the Younger Letters
“Accius Aquila, Sir, a centurion in the sixth cohort in the auxiliary cavalry, has asked me to send you”
Translated by Betty Radice. LCL 59, Pages 298-299,
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“Having been requested, sir, by P. Accius Aquila, a centurion of the Sixth Cavalry Cohort,”
The letters of the younger Pliny; literally translated by John Delaware Lewis
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106
C. PLINIUS TRAIANO IMPERATORI
Rogatus, domine, a P. Accio Aquila, centurione cohortis sextae equestris, ut mitterem tibi libellum per quem indulgentiam pro statu filiae suae implorat, durum putavi negare, cum scirem quantam soleres militum precibus patientiam humanitatemque praestare.
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TRAIANUS PLINIO
Libellum P. Accii Aquilae, centurionis sextae equestris, quem mihi misisti, legi; cuius precibus motus dedi filiae eius civitatem Romanam. Libellum rescriptum, quem illi redderes, misi tibi.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pliny.ep10.html
https://archive.org/stream/lettersofyoun...lry+cohort
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Again, this statement too could have different interpretations. Is it a cavalry cohort or as John Delaware Lewis writes: “i.e., a mixed cohort of cavalry and infantry?”
*
“I have given the command of two cavalry cohorts. (duas cohortes alares)”
(page 310-311 Miscellaneous letters of Marcus Aurelius)
https://archive.org/stream/correspondenc...ch/cohorts
*
The problem though is that this statement can have a different interpretation:
A Compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue, Alexander ADAM (LL.D.):
cohortes alares, auxiliary cohorts of infantry, placed on the wings, Liv. 10,40 & 43. distinguished from the legionary cohorts; thus, crebras stationes disponunt equitum, et cohortium alariarum ; legionariasque interjiciunt cohortes, Caes. B. C. 1,73. cf. 21,18.
https://books.google.nl/books?id=8xNgAAA...es&f=false
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Pliny the Younger Letters
“Accius Aquila, Sir, a centurion in the sixth cohort in the auxiliary cavalry, has asked me to send you”
Translated by Betty Radice. LCL 59, Pages 298-299,
*
“Having been requested, sir, by P. Accius Aquila, a centurion of the Sixth Cavalry Cohort,”
The letters of the younger Pliny; literally translated by John Delaware Lewis
*
106
C. PLINIUS TRAIANO IMPERATORI
Rogatus, domine, a P. Accio Aquila, centurione cohortis sextae equestris, ut mitterem tibi libellum per quem indulgentiam pro statu filiae suae implorat, durum putavi negare, cum scirem quantam soleres militum precibus patientiam humanitatemque praestare.
107
TRAIANUS PLINIO
Libellum P. Accii Aquilae, centurionis sextae equestris, quem mihi misisti, legi; cuius precibus motus dedi filiae eius civitatem Romanam. Libellum rescriptum, quem illi redderes, misi tibi.
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/pliny.ep10.html
https://archive.org/stream/lettersofyoun...lry+cohort
*
Again, this statement too could have different interpretations. Is it a cavalry cohort or as John Delaware Lewis writes: “i.e., a mixed cohort of cavalry and infantry?”
