03-23-2014, 01:04 PM
Quote:2 numeri, one from each Legion, brigaded together and each numbers 750 men.
I believe Malalas is just calling the two legions numeri. This again suggests that the word numerus could refer to military units of various sizes, and was not an exact term.
Quote:Knowing the Romans liked to round things, could this not have been 720 men each?
Do we know they 'liked to round things up'? Or is it more likely that Roman historians (like writers of any era) preferred to quote approximate rather than exact figures?
Nathan Ross