Correction:Algot Runeman wrote:You cannot succeed in insulting me. I'm always makingrpschmitz wrote:Not to be insulting, but according to my reading of Roman history, a century of soldiers (which should have been one hundred) was actually eighty men...misteaksmistakes. Sometimes I even correct them.
Maybe the ancient Romans had difficulty keeping their centuries up to the verbal norm, or perhaps they just couldn't count above 80 and decided to round off. I only took first year Latin in high school. Reading about Caesar's marches wasn't done until second year Latin.
Intitially, (in the early republic) a century was actually one hundred men--barring wounds and illness. But by the time of the Roman Empire, the Century was comprised of eighty (if not fewer men--sometimes as low as sixty): they were trying to cut back, I suppose...
Money talks and B.S. walks...