03-13-2016, 02:48 AM
Frank wrote:
Centurions sometimes used their full titel, which includes the cohors, e.g. centurio decimus hastatus posterior legionis X. Decimus means the 10th Cohort.
Could not centurio decimus mean the tenth hastati posterior century and not the tenth cohort? Aristotle among others claimed that the Pythagoreans and all nations count up to ten and then revert to one.” By applying this doctrine, the century structure would be numbered in the following manner:
10 centuries of hastati prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of hastati posterior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of principes prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of principes posterior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of pilani prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of pilani posterior numbered from one to ten.
For the early republic Dionysius for the year 487 BC briefly describes the career of Lucius Siccius being promoted to centurion then later to the commander of a cohort. Livy (3 69) writes that in 446 BC each cohort chose the centurions and two senators were put in commanded of every cohort. Taken at face value it would suggest that one coud became a cohort commander based on merit and then it changed to senators commanding a cohort, or it was a combination of both.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Centurions sometimes used their full titel, which includes the cohors, e.g. centurio decimus hastatus posterior legionis X. Decimus means the 10th Cohort.
Could not centurio decimus mean the tenth hastati posterior century and not the tenth cohort? Aristotle among others claimed that the Pythagoreans and all nations count up to ten and then revert to one.” By applying this doctrine, the century structure would be numbered in the following manner:
10 centuries of hastati prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of hastati posterior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of principes prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of principes posterior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of pilani prior numbered from one to ten.
10 centuries of pilani posterior numbered from one to ten.
For the early republic Dionysius for the year 487 BC briefly describes the career of Lucius Siccius being promoted to centurion then later to the commander of a cohort. Livy (3 69) writes that in 446 BC each cohort chose the centurions and two senators were put in commanded of every cohort. Taken at face value it would suggest that one coud became a cohort commander based on merit and then it changed to senators commanding a cohort, or it was a combination of both.
Anyone have any suggestions?
