> Thus its claims cannot be checked against any other contemporary sources, which is particularly irksome since some of them appear highly dubious – such as sta

> Thus its claims cannot be checked against any other contemporary sources, which is particularly irksome since some of them appear highly dubious – such as stating that the army marched 20 miles in 5 summer hours at regular pace and 24 miles at double pace. The author provides this information and then never details what was meant by ‘summer hours’. Romans had twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of darkness. That is to say, the daytime was simply divided into 12 hours, which made ‘summer hours’ significantly longer than winter hours (and longer than 60 minute hours.) Which also seems to make the quote more believable.