07-23-2006, 07:19 AM
Checked and verified. Thanks Jim.
It also appears that in a constitution of 398, military workers such as fabricenses were also marked in the manner of recruits.
Quote:Vegetius describes how recruits receive preliminary training and are then 'inscribed with permanent dots in the flesh' (uicturis in cute punctis scripti'); these dots apparently showed the emblems of the soldier's unit.
Vegetius 1.8; 2. 5.
It also appears that in a constitution of 398, military workers such as fabricenses were also marked in the manner of recruits.
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