01-09-2020, 07:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2020, 08:00 PM by Julian de Vries.
Edit Reason: incorrect reading of source
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I dont really understand it either Nathan Ross. Perhaps these numbers are for the Persian Army. Oulamos means rear-(rank),(error: actually ouragos, read incorrectly, my mistake) so what if a oulamos is a unit called in this exact manner because it attacks the rear of the enemy army.
Eunapius: Then a squadron (ίλη) of heavy cavalry (kataphrakton)over four hundred strong crashed into the rearguard.(56) (fragment 27.8 (Suda I 311)
(56)Perhaps from the account of the retreat from Ctesiphon, either the attack launched by the Persians between the villages of Danate and Synce (Zos. 3,27,4 ; Amm. 25,1,5) or the opening attack in the battle in which Julian was killed (Zos. 3,28,4 ; Amm. 25,3,4).
From: The fragmentary classicizing historians of the later Roman Empire ; R.C.Blockley, 1983
I have found one Late Roman Army source for the year 572 AD that calculates a moira:
John of Epiphania: After Marcian crossed the Euphrates and reached Osrhoene, he sent 3,000 armoured soldiers ( ὁπλίται ) against Arzanene, in what is called a moira, setting as their commanders Theodore and Sergius who drew their birth from Rabdion, and Iuventius, commander of the squadrons (tagmata) in Chalcis. (Fr. I 3 (Dindorf 1870: 378, lines 21-28) )
Eunapius: Then a squadron (ίλη) of heavy cavalry (kataphrakton)over four hundred strong crashed into the rearguard.(56) (fragment 27.8 (Suda I 311)
(56)Perhaps from the account of the retreat from Ctesiphon, either the attack launched by the Persians between the villages of Danate and Synce (Zos. 3,27,4 ; Amm. 25,1,5) or the opening attack in the battle in which Julian was killed (Zos. 3,28,4 ; Amm. 25,3,4).
From: The fragmentary classicizing historians of the later Roman Empire ; R.C.Blockley, 1983
I have found one Late Roman Army source for the year 572 AD that calculates a moira:
John of Epiphania: After Marcian crossed the Euphrates and reached Osrhoene, he sent 3,000 armoured soldiers ( ὁπλίται ) against Arzanene, in what is called a moira, setting as their commanders Theodore and Sergius who drew their birth from Rabdion, and Iuventius, commander of the squadrons (tagmata) in Chalcis. (Fr. I 3 (Dindorf 1870: 378, lines 21-28) )