10-24-2014, 11:57 PM
I am really looking forward to the release Ut Milites Dicuntur, it sounds like it will be an essential reference for military historians and reenactors alike.
I had thought the title might be based on several citations related to military phrases in the grammar of Sextus Pompeius Festus which use dicuntur milites, for example:
"Sub vineam iacere dicuntur milites, cum astantibus centurionibus iacere coguntur sudes."
It also brought to mind several passages I had bookmarked in Vegetius' Epitoma Rei Militaris related to military phrases, jargon, or terminology which use dicuntur or the singular dicitur, such as:
"Vocalia dicuntur quae uoce humana pronuntiantur," (III.5)
"Prima autem et secunda acies, cum ad spathas et ad pila, ut dicitur, uentum fuerit, totum sustinet bellum." (III.14)
". . . admotis liburnis iniectis pontibus in aduersariorum transeunt naues ibique gladiis manu ad manum, ut dicitur, comminus dimicant." (IV.44)
I had thought the title might be based on several citations related to military phrases in the grammar of Sextus Pompeius Festus which use dicuntur milites, for example:
"Sub vineam iacere dicuntur milites, cum astantibus centurionibus iacere coguntur sudes."
It also brought to mind several passages I had bookmarked in Vegetius' Epitoma Rei Militaris related to military phrases, jargon, or terminology which use dicuntur or the singular dicitur, such as:
"Vocalia dicuntur quae uoce humana pronuntiantur," (III.5)
"Prima autem et secunda acies, cum ad spathas et ad pila, ut dicitur, uentum fuerit, totum sustinet bellum." (III.14)
". . . admotis liburnis iniectis pontibus in aduersariorum transeunt naues ibique gladiis manu ad manum, ut dicitur, comminus dimicant." (IV.44)
