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    Who were called "military-biscuits', who acted as an army of private bodyguards in ancient Rome?

    Question #74897. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Jan 23 07 7:41 PM)


    TabbyTom

    		Buc(c)ellarii or buc(c)ellarians.

    See towards the end of ยง2 of this webpage (confirmed in Alexander Souter's Dictionary of Later Latin):
    http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/BURLAT/2*.html


    Jan 24 07, 4:43 AM

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