11-01-2008, 11:12 AM
Quote:Avete,
As far as I know: casual age of recruits was seven-teen or eigh-teen, I am not sure now :oops: If a roman boy has put off his toga praetexta and he has attired his new toga for citizens (white toga - toga candida?), he was adult man and he coult has entered the forces legaly. Personaly, I know about cases, when a recruits were younger than seven-teen: in critical timmes for Rome. In my Oppinion: It was not common, joint up in four-teen, but it was possible. Also, as far I know, a recruit coult has been older than seven-teen, for instance twenty and more. Easyly, you coult have entered the forces, when you was able to fight :-) )
vale and regards
I'm sure if the need was great it would be a case of who can ever hold a spear will do.
Fasta Ambrosius Longus
John
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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John
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
