08-24-2009, 06:42 AM
Quote:D Campbell wrote:
I'm less convinced of your incremental counting theory, though. Ovid says that "From that time, Romulus separated the 100 senators (patres) into ten circles, and instituted 10 spearmen (hastati) and he had a body of the equivalent number of front-men (principes) and just as many javelin-men (pilani) and those who legitimately merited horses (Fasti 127-130). I don't see how this can spin out into your gradually incrementing system. It all sounds a little vague and, ... well, poetic.
You are using information not applicable to my case. I am referring to Ovid's remark about starting a fresh. A cycle so to speak. It is all interrelated. The number 75 in the first cycle as I stated belongs to the Polybian time frame. Take 75 and divided it by 4200 infantry = 56. Take 75 and divided it by 300 cavarly =4. 56 + 4 = 60. This is the period as Vegetius states when the cavalry are on the same roll as the infantry. In the second cycle, of 75, when divided by 6000 = 80. This is the time frame of the Hyginus legion. But the above is about the voting system. As for vague, well part of the equation is missing...on purpose.
Quote:D Campell wrote:
On the contrary, I was fast asleep by the time I got to "The original 10 voting centuries represent the 90 to 100 centuries band of one cycle of 100 centuries". I hope your examiners love numbers as much as you do!
The above is a tool I use to ensure the rest of the mathematics is correct. Just a helpful tool that gives me great insight into the organisation of the legions.
