(October 14, 2015 at 8:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Some centurions commanded cohorts which would make them something akin to a major.
The denari was supposed to be the standard wage for a laborer for one day during the late Republican/ early Imperial period.
Although administratively a centurion would be a equivalent to non-commissioned officer, the responsibility of the head centurion of a legion, the primus pilus, would be more like the chief of staff of an army division, which would equivalent in power and responsibility to a modern colonel.
Still can't imagine he would be paid the equivalent of a half million dollars a year.
