04-08-2014, 12:06 PM
Evan, thanks, I quite understand, but it is just something I knew about all those years - and my recent research would probably support that organisation.
Nathan - and more thanks. I'd known of them so long that I hadn't particularly thought to query them directly (and indeed will still use them), but equally hadn't seen any primary evidence to support them.
Equally I wasn't trying to relate them to an actual army of the time, but more to the transition from the previous/embryonic field army of Severus - and the 'numbers' would work out very nicely. That does lead me, however, towards my theory that an Auxilia Palatina of this period is still based upon a Cohort (of 6 centuries/500) and a Field Army Legio is double that.
And see whether it stands up..... :wink:
Nathan - and more thanks. I'd known of them so long that I hadn't particularly thought to query them directly (and indeed will still use them), but equally hadn't seen any primary evidence to support them.
Equally I wasn't trying to relate them to an actual army of the time, but more to the transition from the previous/embryonic field army of Severus - and the 'numbers' would work out very nicely. That does lead me, however, towards my theory that an Auxilia Palatina of this period is still based upon a Cohort (of 6 centuries/500) and a Field Army Legio is double that.
And see whether it stands up..... :wink: