06-09-2018, 06:20 AM
Rob wrote:
At that early time there were as yet no cohorts
The belief there was no cohorts in the early period is just an academic belief that is unfounded, but everyone runs with it. If academia cannot even determine the size and organisation of a legion for this period, then how can they dispute there was no cohort? This methodology does not make sense to me, and academia need to change its way of thinking.
Primary sources not the problem. Academia is the problem.
Livy (3 69) cohortibus veterum militum voluntate sequentibus manserit ad decimum. “A few cohorts of veterans (seniores).
Dionysius (9 63) “two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men.
Livy (1 52) Latinis Romanisque ut ex binis singulos faceret binosque ex singulis ; ita geminatis manipulis centurions imposuit.
“he therefore mingled Latins and Romans in the maniples, making one maniple of two and two of one, and over the maniples thus doubled he put centurions.”
Livy knows the difference between a maniple so has not confuse the Greek translation of cohort as meaning maniple.
My own research has the two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men as being vexillations. It is the first evidence of such a system.
At that early time there were as yet no cohorts
The belief there was no cohorts in the early period is just an academic belief that is unfounded, but everyone runs with it. If academia cannot even determine the size and organisation of a legion for this period, then how can they dispute there was no cohort? This methodology does not make sense to me, and academia need to change its way of thinking.
Primary sources not the problem. Academia is the problem.
Livy (3 69) cohortibus veterum militum voluntate sequentibus manserit ad decimum. “A few cohorts of veterans (seniores).
Dionysius (9 63) “two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men.
Livy (1 52) Latinis Romanisque ut ex binis singulos faceret binosque ex singulis ; ita geminatis manipulis centurions imposuit.
“he therefore mingled Latins and Romans in the maniples, making one maniple of two and two of one, and over the maniples thus doubled he put centurions.”
Livy knows the difference between a maniple so has not confuse the Greek translation of cohort as meaning maniple.
My own research has the two cohorts did not exceed 1,000 men as being vexillations. It is the first evidence of such a system.
