
Originally Posted by
Friday
It is also understand that these legionaries were celibate during their enlistments.
If you're equating "celibate" with "unmarried" I would agree.
Having spent many years along the wall how many took their discharge in the area of the wall and started a family.
I daresay there were a LOT of "discharges" in the area, as the occupiers did tend to regard the locals as barbarians and thus not requiring the same treatment mandated toward citizens of Rome. . .
"It's all the same to me, war or peace,
I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."
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