Humakti Thousand

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:31:21 -0400


A military unit called a Thousand which actually sometimes has 1,000 members? Weird.

In the Roman legions (post Marian reforms) a 'century' had an establishment of 80 men, or 160 if it was in the first cohort.

Andrew

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