03-19-2014, 01:03 PM
Aha... he means the 40,000 strong force, not 4,000. The text reads "four myriads" This makes the units an average of 6,666 men strong. In my reading of Zosimus, the term tagma is probably usually used as legion (along with the term telos), but certain doubtless identification in all instances is impossible, which unfortunately leaves a lot of space for alternative theories/translations regarding the consistency of his terminology.