03-19-2014, 01:56 PM
Why are you mixing up chiliades and chiliarchoi? I of course agree that Zosimus may not be talking about legions, but this has nothing to do with any number of chiliarchoi. The terms are not similar nor can the chiliarchos be used here.
However, first you should check if there is a manuscript mentioning chiliades (thousands) since the texts I have studied say myriads... Most possibly the 4,000 translation is just a printing mistake.
He calls it an ile (I always use the original words in my translations, I think this makes them much more useful for us military freaks), the usual term for ala and generally meaning squadron.
However, first you should check if there is a manuscript mentioning chiliades (thousands) since the texts I have studied say myriads... Most possibly the 4,000 translation is just a printing mistake.
He calls it an ile (I always use the original words in my translations, I think this makes them much more useful for us military freaks), the usual term for ala and generally meaning squadron.