05-24-2013, 01:36 PM
Doesn't contubernium mean "tent mates"? I thought that was a term for the 8 men assigned to a papilio, but I don't know when that was adopted. For some reason, I had the idea that a maniple was 40 men, or half a century.
Some also say, not to throw a wrench in the machine, that the word century comes from the word translated census, from the verb meaning to count population, rather than from the word meaning "a hundred." Several words in Latin can be from different roots, look the same, but mean utterly different things. But I'm not an expert at the language. My High School Latin was way back in the middle of the 20th Century (meaning a hundred years, not 80, heh.)
Some also say, not to throw a wrench in the machine, that the word century comes from the word translated census, from the verb meaning to count population, rather than from the word meaning "a hundred." Several words in Latin can be from different roots, look the same, but mean utterly different things. But I'm not an expert at the language. My High School Latin was way back in the middle of the 20th Century (meaning a hundred years, not 80, heh.)
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
