03-08-2014, 03:31 PM
I notice that when talking about the 7 regiments sent to fight the war against Gildo that the consensus seems that one of the regiments mentioned is the Augustei, however Roger Tomlin in his paper "Seniores - Iuniores in the Late Roman Army" agrees with the other 6 units mentioned but he thinks that the (VIII Augusta, i.e. Octavani, based in Italy) was the 7th unit sent which I think was a legion, not the Augustei. which I assume was an auxiliary regiment. :? Just curious about thoughts on this.
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Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
Michael Kerr
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"
"You can conquer an empire from the back of a horse but you can't rule it from one"