10-25-2020, 11:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2020, 01:16 PM by Nathan Ross.)
(10-25-2020, 10:10 PM)Renatus Wrote: Any thoughts?
I confess I have long assumed that Dio merely invented the three-fold battle line to give himself an excuse to compose three different rousing pre-battle speeches for Paulinus. So much of Dio seems to be a bare narrative frame on which to hang rhetorical exercises.
It does seem a little strange otherwise. I suppose we might guess that the constricted terrain compelled him to place the three divisions of his army at such a distance that he could not address them all together?
Nathan Ross