(urth) Sedition among the Paralians

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Sat Jun 19 06:16:44 PDT 2010


Father Inire writes to Severian:

There is sedition among the Paralians, which must be rooted out. The 
Tarentines, your Antrustiones, and the city legions—the three groups 
that bore the brunt of the fighting—having suffered almost as badly as 
the enemy. There are cohorts among them that could not muster a hundred 
able soldiers.

Lexicon Urthis suggests that these named groups are various subject 
peoples and tries to locate them. But this is plainly an error. Inire is 
simply giving the new Autarch a post-battle report. All these named 
groups are simply "imperial" legions and are mentioned nowhere else.

According to Google:

Paralians - Athenians off a ship named Paralus = Sailors and Marines. No 
kidding that there is sedition---Gunnie and Ida are among them.

Tarentines = Italian mercenary cavalry = mercenary cavalry, possibly 
those Severian fought among. "Hipparch Severian, of the Black Tarentines."

Antrustiones = foreign soldiers fighting for the the Frankish king = 
foreign soldiers fighting for the Autarch.





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