"Companion to the Roman Army"

[philsidnell]

Many publishers, (certainly most commercial ones, I have no experience of academic university presses) use freelance copy-editors and proofreaders who are not necessarily even interested, let alone specialists in, the subject and could never pick up an error of fact like this. This is compounded by the fact that even many commissioning editors have no particular personal interest in the subject they commission on. There is a shortage of competent specialised proofreaders, so perhaps some of you should be touting for business.