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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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but horses can't live like this. aside from likely 2-3x exaggeration of infantry, they are at least plausible in that roman had that many people around.
You are right about the horses, I don't think the Romans had that much horse, because even for agriculture they used oxen.
That being said, look up iraj castle, that's the ruins of a late antiquity military installation meant to house 10k cavalry. There seem to be many smaller structures of similar design all over central asia.