03-13-2019, 11:11 PM
(03-13-2019, 03:51 PM)Mark Hygate Wrote: Is it not more - if not at least equally - likely that someone multiplies 60 x Centurions/Centuries by 100 to get 6,000.
Yes, I suppose so. Writers throughout Roman history seem to have assumed a general size for a legion, often six thousand, and could well have calculated it in just this way. My point was that the reference in question was to the legion of the principiate, not the later era.
Nathan Ross