02-11-2006, 10:31 PM
My apologies if this already has been discussed.
Anyways, there is a sentence of particular interest in Vegetius' De Re Militari (book 1).
This doesn't make sense to me. According to many other sources (including Polybius), the hastati made up the first line (in front of which were the velites), and the principes were positioned in the second line. How should we interpret this piece of information?
Anyways, there is a sentence of particular interest in Vegetius' De Re Militari (book 1).
Quote:Those who fought in the first line of their respective legions were called principes, in the second hastati, and in third triarii.
This doesn't make sense to me. According to many other sources (including Polybius), the hastati made up the first line (in front of which were the velites), and the principes were positioned in the second line. How should we interpret this piece of information?
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I have not spent months gathering Hoplites from the four corners of the earth just to let
some Swedish pancake in a purloined panoply lop their lower limbs off! - Paul Allen, Thespian
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