Immortals and Archaic Rome

Josh Geller · 19 Jun 2003, 14:58 · from urth-v0306.mbox · original

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From: Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Immortals and Archaic Rome
Date: 19 Jun 2003 07:58:19 -0700
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I believe that somewhere in there it says that Latro and his people
went to Egypt for some reason. Egypt was then a Persian province.

J.

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On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 21:16, Chris wrote:
> Hmm. This, combined with some other posts, made me wonder about languages=
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> Our Lucius was fairly fluent in Greek (even if his memory problem leads t=
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> some strange interpretation). IIRC he also was able to talk to Persians a=
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> culturally diverse environment. If Lucius and his contingent had been liv=
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> amidst the Persian court for a fair amount of time, this makes it much mo=
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> likely that they'd be exiles rather than mercenaries. Certainly the Persi=
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> kings were fairly generous to other exiles.
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> had and the obvious problems with keeping them supplied, it would seem od=
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> >The Persians generally lacked infantry to match the Greeks. Before,
> >during and after the war they went to some efforts to hire Greek
> >infantry. They would have definitely found a use for a cohort or two
> >of Roman infantry.
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> >J.
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