07-30-2014, 08:47 AM
Hardly depressing, it just points out the potential futility of hanging your hat on elegant translations of spurious histories.
The strategic location, defensive topography and site finds should always be a priority over antique narratives. Potentially the hunt for the site has been diverted and delayed over the decades by the insistence that the text and it's interpretations should take priority over other factors, thus limiting the enagagement to those with a strong grasp of latin, all 200 words of it. At this point I'd take the view of a soldier over that of a classicist as all that can be said about the text, in respect of battlefield location, has been said.
The strategic location, defensive topography and site finds should always be a priority over antique narratives. Potentially the hunt for the site has been diverted and delayed over the decades by the insistence that the text and it's interpretations should take priority over other factors, thus limiting the enagagement to those with a strong grasp of latin, all 200 words of it. At this point I'd take the view of a soldier over that of a classicist as all that can be said about the text, in respect of battlefield location, has been said.