01-05-2013, 03:26 AM
Quote:Primi ordines[/i] would be senior centurions, but whether they were the centurions of the first cohort, or the 'leading' centurions of all the cohorts, or both, is still unclear as far as I know!
Yes it is unclear, because their is no evidence. However the majority of scholars argue, that just the centurions of the 1st cohors were primi ordines. The theory, that just the first 3 (primuspilus, princeps, hastatus) were primi ordines seems to be outdated. But even if the pilus prior was a primi ordines, this would not change that much, but his salary.
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