EUREKA - Roman army troops

[D B Campbell]

It's the bit about Josephus placing his own army under the command of dekadarchs, hekatontarchs, and chiliarchs, "in the Roman manner". Which proves what?

The reference to Josephus and my omission of providing the text, which you have done, was an exercise in determining what people, like yourself, fail to notice. ... you failed to mention the most important component, and that is Josephus first “distributed the soldiers into various classes.” The Roman army is all about class structure. Most academics think this system belongs to bygone days.

I don't know which is more reprehensible. That you deliberately set us up, like lab rats, to see who would "fail" to perform your test of scholarship, or that you, yourself, have twisted Josephus' words to suit your thesis.

Let's be clear: Josephus says that "he proclaimed [or, by extension, produced/created] differences [or, by extension, divisions] among the soldiers". If you wish to argue that Josephus selected his soldiers according to some social class system, you'll have to better than that.