Zodiac and Late Roman Army Organisation

[Nathan Ross]

I have to confess, I don't follow your theorybthough.

You are not alone. I found the following on-line (Steven's contribution in the latter half explains the origins of his theory, I think) but it's still beyond me, I'm afraid.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neoplatonism/message/4516

The theory was also discussed at great length in this very long thread. The last couple of pages are worth looking at.

I'm not at all sure where the figure of 7200 comes from - sizes of Roman military units are often vague at best, at during the late empire especially: Vegetius mentions a legion of 6000 men, Ammianus writes of units of 300 men, archaeologists infer garrisons of 100 on Hadrian's Wall, historians estimate 500-man cohorts of auxilia and legions of 1000-2000... It might seem that the name of the unit is more important than the number of men it contains (which would be the number available at any one time, probably!).

Anyway, as mentioned on the thread above, if there was some grand mathematical plan for troop numbers within army organisation, we don't have any record of it and it certainly isn't supported by the evidence we do possess.