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Title: vegetius Post by Mordechaj on Jun 14th, 2007 at 6:10pm
in the articles there are a few well known (to us at least) quotes from vegetius, concerning slings, slingers in the roman army, their positioning in the battle-order and a little about balearic slingers.
i'm reading his Epitoma rei militaris now, and i've found a quote that i haven't seen on this site before, so here it is: in the book II, paragraph 23. Quote:
*about 178 meters please take note that i have the materials in croatian, so the clumsiness of the txt is due to my translation, vegetius is not to be blamed because of it :P |
Title: Re: vegetius Post by winkleried on Jun 14th, 2007 at 9:13pm
Thanks Sir,
I might have to track down a copy ( eventually) and read it myself Marc Adkins Mordechaj wrote on Jun 14th, 2007 at 6:10pm:
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Title: Re: vegetius Post by Mordechaj on Jun 15th, 2007 at 5:51am
oh, it's a really interesing book. just be sure to find an edition that has good explanations and prologue, because by just reading "dry" materials there could be a lot of misunderstandings...
the bold part is for the balearic "traditional" style :P |
Title: Re: vegetius Post by slingbadger on Jun 15th, 2007 at 10:48am
The need for a unified way of launching is quite needed. The slingers had to act as one, so that everything went off perfectly. Imagine the chaos if all these slingers in the rows did their own style of launches :P
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