Talk:Decumanus Maximus

The article now says, "this name comes from the fact that the via decumana or decimana (the tenth) separated the Tenth Cohort from the Ninth in the legionary encampment, in the same way as the via quintana separated the Fifth Cohort from the Sixth."

But that's not "the same way." In the first instance, the boundary is described as preceding the namesake unit (before the Tenth); in the second instance it is described as succeeding (after the Fifth).

I suspect that the truth is that the decumana separates the Tenth from the Eleventh, so that the whole falls into equal sectors of five. As presently written, there would be a sector of five (First through Fifth), then a sector of four (Sixth through Ninth).

But that is only my supposition. Possibly the correction goes the other way, or possibly the system really doesn't make sense, but it bears explaining. Spark240 (talk) 16:25, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

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