05-30-2017, 08:48 AM
(05-29-2017, 05:24 AM)Longovicium Wrote: The larger footprint of the same size tent would then be accounted for by the horse or baggage or attendant slave, perhaps. The centurion doesn't need a larger tent per se, I think.
Might it also be that the centurion's tent was higher than those of the milites? If the centurion had a tent with standing room inside it (for meetings/admin, perhaps?), the guy-ropes would need to be longer and the tent would therefore take up more ground.
Otherwise, there would perhaps be space set aside for the calones attached to the century, unless they were left to huddle inside the contubernia tents?
Nathan Ross
