• Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    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.

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      12 hours ago

      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.

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        8 hours ago

        wow that’s cool! I was actually just joking but it’s cool that there was something like that going on!