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Hadrian's speech to the army in Africa (the "Lambaesis speech") mentions the equites Coh. VI Commagenorum: Addidistis ut et lapides fundis mitterestis et missilibus confligeretis -- Moreover, you shot stones from slings and fought with darts (translation M. P. Speidel, modified). This, by the way, is the only known reference to slings used by auxiliaries. Arrian, Taktika, 43.1, mentions, among the exercizes, the "special shooting" using darts, cross-bows, stones by hand, and stones by sling (so that the Kommagenian auxiliaries doing the sling thing isn't special, but routine in Roman army). [spelling corrected]
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