06-01-2013, 07:44 PM
Thanks Thomas!
An ingenious suggestion, but not sure I follow it! The names of the provinces in the Notitia are given as words (prima, secunda) not numerals, so Germaniae I wouldn't work like that, surely?
I've noticed there is quite a bit of German study on this subject, but almost nothing in English - which is a shame, as I can't read German! Is Scharf's view quite widely held, do you know? The few scattered English references seem to conclude that Roman control of the lower Rhine had ceased at some point between Arbogast's rebuilding work at Cologne and the composition of the ND... Although Otto Seeck (it seems) preferred to believe that the Germania Secunda bit had just been missed from the text.
Quote:the Dux Germania Prima might have been the Dux of the Germania Inferior province (Germania Secunda).
An ingenious suggestion, but not sure I follow it! The names of the provinces in the Notitia are given as words (prima, secunda) not numerals, so Germaniae I wouldn't work like that, surely?
I've noticed there is quite a bit of German study on this subject, but almost nothing in English - which is a shame, as I can't read German! Is Scharf's view quite widely held, do you know? The few scattered English references seem to conclude that Roman control of the lower Rhine had ceased at some point between Arbogast's rebuilding work at Cologne and the composition of the ND... Although Otto Seeck (it seems) preferred to believe that the Germania Secunda bit had just been missed from the text.
Nathan Ross
