08-15-2010, 08:18 AM
Thanks! That is an invaluable source.
What I am really interested in is where the word emerged within late Roman academic/military studies as a point of identification for the old maniple. Barker uses it without explanation as to why it became the accepted term instead of maniple. For him (in my old copy) it simple exists as a descriptor for a unit of apprx. 200 men (the old maniple size) - there is some evidence (mostly epigraphical) that maniple survived into the later empire under Justinian so I am curious if Barker simply got it wrong or if in fact the 'ordo' was used by the military of the day for the old manipular unit of two centuriones . . .
Right, off to trawl through some 4,000 entries!
What I am really interested in is where the word emerged within late Roman academic/military studies as a point of identification for the old maniple. Barker uses it without explanation as to why it became the accepted term instead of maniple. For him (in my old copy) it simple exists as a descriptor for a unit of apprx. 200 men (the old maniple size) - there is some evidence (mostly epigraphical) that maniple survived into the later empire under Justinian so I am curious if Barker simply got it wrong or if in fact the 'ordo' was used by the military of the day for the old manipular unit of two centuriones . . .
Right, off to trawl through some 4,000 entries!
Francis Hagan
The Barcarii
The Barcarii
