Talk:Evocatus

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Evocatus was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: June 15, 2006

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[edit] Legitimate?

Is this a legitimate article? I have added a category, but am unsure if the Evocati was a real unit, or only existed in the HBO series Rome. Hiberniantears 21:55, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

It's real. I copied the article from William Smith's A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities here. Ausir 08:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GA Failure

Reason:The entire article reads like a lead paragraph. It doesn't get much further from defining what it is. --SeizureDog 05:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC) v cvvggbdggdgbfdgbg

[edit] Rank

The article says both that evocati were promoted to centurions and that they could not hold the rank of a centurion. Which is it? --Janus_Coriolanus 09:56, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

It doesn't say that, actually, it's being ambiguous. The reference quoted just shows that it's not possible for all the evocati under Pompey's command to have been centurions. Thus, although having a higher rank than common legionaries, an evocatus was not always a centurion. 82.92.119.11 22:17, 15 December 2006 (UTC)