Cohort commander?

[Thomas Aagaard]

Where is this stuff coming from? Some of it looks highly contentious. Sweeping statements like these are valueless without authority to back them up.

You are both using different numbers. But where do you get them from? what are our sources?
Do we have a surviving firsthand account of about it? is it an estimate by an historian made in an opsrey book? or?

And that goes for both Theodoric's army in the 5th century.
And do we have other sources about what Caesar faced than what he wrote himself?

Iam in no way asking for translations of originals... but I would like to know what our sources are.


And to get back to the original topic.
Burzum, you are stating that:

"For the other cohorts they all had 6 centuries with a centurion, optio and tesserariusin in charge of each.
The pilus prior was in command of each cohort and was an elected centurion right underneath primus pilus during battle."

Are you suggesting that one centurie was without its centurion since he commanded the cohort? (the optio would properly just take over)
or that there was actually 7 centurion pr cohort? (Iam simply not sure from your text)

Nathan Ross writes:

a centurion of any grade may have lacked the authority to command a legionary cohort.

(a view based on comments by popularis )

So again we have two views that is sort of oposit. So who is correct?
Some sources to back up both statements would be nice