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minus-squareCyrus Draegur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoif you’re hot-bunking, you can house 24 men in that structure. 3 shifts, only 8 sleeping at a time. of course, this is rome we’re talking about… maybe we had some fellas cuddling up.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoInterestingly enough, some suggest that Roman contubernia had 10 men in them (8 legionaries, 2 assistants), and that tents and barracks having 8 sleeping spaces is because 2 men would be rotated on night-time guard duty.
minus-squareCyrus Draegur@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agowow that’s cool! I was actually just joking but it’s cool that there was something like that going on!
if you’re hot-bunking, you can house 24 men in that structure.
3 shifts, only 8 sleeping at a time.
of course, this is rome we’re talking about… maybe we had some fellas cuddling up.
Interestingly enough, some suggest that Roman contubernia had 10 men in them (8 legionaries, 2 assistants), and that tents and barracks having 8 sleeping spaces is because 2 men would be rotated on night-time guard duty.
wow that’s cool! I was actually just joking but it’s cool that there was something like that going on!